meaning of remit
1. To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
2. To restore.
3. To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc. ; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
4. To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen. " Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
5. To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
6. To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
7. To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
8. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
9. To send money, as in payment.
10. law the act of remitting especially the referral of a law case to another court
Related Words
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