remit
Other forms: remitted; remitting; remits
If you send your client a bill for your consulting services, be sure to include your address so he knows where to remit the payment.
Remit means send back, and it has many uses. If you remit payment, you send it back to the person you owe it to. If you’ve been in prison for five years of a seven-year sentence but you’ve been on good behavior, a judge might remit the remainder of your sentence and let you go free.
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send (money) in payment“remit $25”type of:paygive money, usually in exchange for goods or services
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hold back to a later time
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release from (claims, debts, or taxes)
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forgive“God will remit their sins”type of:forgivestop blaming or grant forgiveness
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refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
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make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
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diminish or abate
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(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
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the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with
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Your mission? To learn these words derived from the Latin roots mit- and miss-, meaning "to send."
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