remit

Forward the funds

Remit has two clusters of meaning.

One involves sending or transmitting—especially money: Please remit payment within 30 days.

Courts remit cases to lower courts for reconsideration.

The other involves lessening or forgiving: to remit a debt is to cancel it; symptoms that remit have subsided.

As a noun (accent on first syllable), a remit is the scope of someone's authority or responsibility: That falls outside my remit.

scope

purview

Range of authority

domain · parameters · boundaries · limits · jurisdiction · authority · range · extent · breadth · reach

payment

send

Cause to arrive elsewhere

dispatch · pay · settle · tender · funds · money · dues · fees · invoice · transaction

forgiveness

pardon

Official release from punishment

waive · cancel · overlook · release · exonerate · acquit · clemency · amnesty · reprieve · mercy

reduction

abate

Lessen in intensity

slacken · moderate · ease · relax · subside · wane · mitigate · alleviate · soften · weaken

Categories
Opposites
payment/transmission

remitwithhold

Refuse to give

retain · keep · hold · receive · collect

debt/punishment forgiveness

remitexact

Perfectly correct, no deviation

enforce · impose · demand · collect · require

intensity/symptoms (abatement)

remitintensify

Increase in degree

worsen · escalate · flare · exacerbate · increase

Phrases
Family

remiss, remission, unremitting, remittance, remitted, remitting, remits, remittances, remittal

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G