remit

Meaning

1. To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
2. To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
3. To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
4. (obsolete) To give up; omit; cease doing.
5. To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
6. (obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
7. (obsolete) To diminish, abate.
8. To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
9. (obsolete) To send back.
10. To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
11. To restore or replace.
12. To postpone.
13. (obsolete) To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.

send

address

yield

let go of

make excuses

report out

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈmɪt/

From Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”), present active infinitive of remittō. Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.

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