Remit Meaning
/ɹɪˈmɪt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
verbTo forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
Sentence Examples
May we ask you to remit the settlement in full at your earliest convenience?
That's not within my remit.
We will need to remit the case to a superior court.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Please ____ the full payment to our office by the end of the month.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The committee's ____ was to investigate the causes of the financial crisis and recommend reforms.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Such a Step as this would raise a Succession of able Seamen, and in a few Years would come to remit a thousand, or perhaps two or three thousand sturdy Youths every Year into the general Class of English Seamen;"
— 1728, Daniel Defoe, chapter 3, in Some Considerations on the Reasonableness and Necessity of Encreasing and Encouraging the Seamen, London, page 45:
"Doctor Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar. Mr. Dick is wild with joy, and my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post."
— 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 18, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
"Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal
Remit thy other forfeits."
— c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
"Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 20:23:
"Mrs. Western was a very good-natured Woman, and ordinarily of a forgiving Temper. She had lately remitted the Trespass of a Stage-coach Man, who had overturned her Post-chaise into a Ditch;"
— 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 9, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 39:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Please ____ the full payment to our office by the end of the month.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The committee's ____ was to investigate the causes of the financial crisis and recommend reforms.