remit🔊

To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).

To refrain from exacting or enforcing.

(obsolete) To give up; omit; cease doing.

To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).

(obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).

(obsolete) To diminish, abate.

To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).

(obsolete) To send back.

(archaic) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.

To restore or replace.

To postpone.

(obsolete) To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.

(chiefly Britain) Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.

(law) A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.