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Definition of remit in English: remitverbremitted, remitting, remits rɪˈmɪtrəˈmɪt [with object]1Cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting (a debt or punishment) the excess of the sentence over 12 months was remitted Example sentencesExamples - Where he, by deception, induces P. to remit his debt, he commits the offence under Section 2(a).
- He thinks that hell isn't that bad, and if God isn't angered, he might remit the punishment of the fallen angels anyway.
- Government and other institutions that owe billions of Kwacha in unpaid rate charges should work out programmes to remit the outstanding monies.
- As you will be aware, the punishment has already been remitted.
- This would be a radical departure from the current system where relatively long-term loans are made to developing countries, with the IMF remitting funds only as a long list of conditions are satisfied.
- Still, the harvest was down on the year before, and the miller was obviously in some difficulties, because he was remitted almost half his rent ‘by the kindness of the bishop’.
- The government must reconsider its position and put into place a system for remitting student debts for all those who enter the public sector.
Synonyms cancel, set aside, revoke, repeal, rescind, abrogate, suspend - 1.1Theology Forgive (a sin)
God's act of remitting the sins of guilty men Synonyms pardon, forgive excuse, overlook, pass over
2Send (money) in payment or as a gift. the income they remitted to their families Example sentencesExamples - You can invest in anything, you don't need government approvals, you can remit your profits out, and there are no equity restrictions.
- People in large numbers went abroad for work and remitted their earnings.
- Money is also remitted to families from relatives in New Zealand.
- He is just trying to get back at me for not remitting him the money he wanted for organizing some bloody graduation parties!
- With the growth of online banking, companies were remitting salaries online and customers were making payments without having to physically step into a bank.
- The Federation remits money to the university to pay for the alcohol and maintenance.
- In 1981, out-of-nation Pakistanis remitted $2 billion, which equaled thirty percent of the value of the nation's imports.
- There is, however, no doubt that mistakes can occur where money is remitted by means of a money-transfer order.
- After remitting the sale proceeds - minus 40 per cent commission - to the bookstall owner, he winds up the show.
- Currently, the tax code encourages firms to retain earnings and remit income to shareholders through share repurchases.
- Until 1999, we remitted no sums by way of hire for the 3 ships.
- The total sum was eventually remitted to companies controlled by Ward in the United States.
- Any rent received from the property is fully taxable in Ireland, even if you do not remit the rent to Ireland.
- If you plan to attend, please indicate this on the Congress registration form and remit the appropriate fee.
- The payer must deduct standard rate income tax and remit it to the Revenue.
- Demands for payment were made and a partial payment was remitted.
- He also called on the media to assist in sensitisation programmes especially on ensuring that correct taxes were remitted and consumers received proof of purchase from sellers.
- Mexicans working in the US remit an astounding $8 billion a year to Mexico, a figure nearly equal to total annual foreign investment in the country.
- Please remit the relevant amount to the office at your earliest convenience.
- If you grant me this appeal, then my friend from overseas is going to remit me some money and then I will be able to engage a barrister.
Synonyms send, dispatch, forward, transmit, convey pay, hand over, make payment of 3Refer (a matter for decision) to an authority. the request for an investigation was remitted to a special committee Example sentencesExamples - It is for him to decide, if I remit the matter to him, that particular issue.
- The appropriate course for me to take is to remit the matter to the disciplinary committee.
- They are seeking legal costs and an order remitting the issue of their promotion to the PSC for reconsideration within 14 days.
- The relief sought is quashing of the Inspector's decision, and remitting the matter to the Secretary of State.
- It remits that appeal for ‘determination by him’.
- They continued the hearing after having remitted back the critical issues to his Honour.
- The jurisdiction of the arbitrator can only be protected if the award is also remitted to his reconsideration.
Synonyms pass (on), refer, send on, transfer, hand on, direct, assign, commit, entrust - 3.1Law Send back (a case) to a lower court.
Example sentencesExamples - For that reason we submit that the appropriate course is to remit the matter to the Court of Appeal.
- So you say if we took this matter on, allowed the appeal and remitted the matter to the Court of Appeal to seek a recalculation, it would not necessarily involve any amount of money at all?
- These matters are remitted to the Ontario Court of Justice for the imposition of a sentence warranted in law.
- The amendments were made, then the case was remitted in that form.
- I presume at some stage the question will arise whether, if the Full Court's approach was flawed, this Court should do more than set aside its order and remit the matter to it?
- 3.2Law Send (someone) from one tribunal to another for a trial or hearing.
it remits an offender to another court after convicting him - 3.3archaic Postpone.
the movers refused Mr Tierney's request to remit the motion Synonyms postpone, defer, put off, put back, shelve, delay, hold over/off, stand over, suspend, prorogue, reschedule, keep in abeyance North American put over, lay on the table, table North American Law continue informal put on the back burner, put on ice, put in cold storage rare respite - 3.4archaic Consign again to a previous state.
thus his indiscretion remitted him to the nature of an ordinary person
4archaic no object Diminish. phobias may remit spontaneously without any treatment Example sentencesExamples - It has been suggested that few marital problems remit spontaneously.
Synonyms diminish, lessen, decrease, ease (up), abate, moderate, dwindle, wane, ebb, subside
nounPlural remits rɪˈmɪtˈriːmɪtrəˈmɪt 1British The task or area of activity officially assigned to an individual or organization. the committee was becoming caught up in issues that did not fall within its remit Example sentencesExamples - In addition, it reviewed one appeal against the decision by the Head of Programme Complaints that a complaint did not fall within the remit of the Programme Complaints Unit, which was not upheld.
- Some doctors seek to widen their professional remit to cover the entire range of human experience.
- The government extended its remit as part of crime prevention across the aviation industry.
- I have frequently said that Lord Hutton's remit was too narrow.
- The station's public-service remit should guarantee that such a critical aspect of Irish life gets intelligent coverage.
- What spheres of activity might fall within the remit of an international liaison, given this context?
- Singular wine shops responded by extending their remit to beer and spirits.
- But whether it fulfils this remit is another matter.
- The board will expand its remit to cover public liability and motor accidents later this year.
- The legislation extends the commission's remit to deal with demand side management and energy efficiency.
- He has a broader remit and has already started conducting his own inquiry.
- Since then, it has expanded far beyond its original remit.
- They were also routinely involved with much that would later fall within the remit of secular government, through their concern with such issues as the laws of marriage, the administration of wills, and perjury.
- For the tribunal to be able to fulfil its remit, there were many legal difficulties to overcome.
- But the Governors also recognised their responsibility for ensuring that BBC Radio continued to meet its public service remit.
- The issue for her critics is the extent to which her populist approach has compromised the channel's public-service remit.
- Covert video surveillance was research; it has been published as research and therefore did fall within the remit of the inquiry.
- Under its remit, the Task Force is expected to carry out a full review of academic employment in the University.
- Why is this relevant to a discussion of the commission's remit?
- Of course the judiciary protest too much as they extend their remit.
Synonyms area of responsibility, area of activity, sphere, orbit, scope, ambit, province, territory, realm, department, turf brief, instructions, orders informal bailiwick 2An item referred to someone for consideration. a remit on the question failed
Derivatives adjective rɪˈmɪtəb(ə)l Proceeds from the sale of assets in South Africa owned by a non-resident are remittable to the non-resident. Example sentencesExamples - The net tax remittable to the Receiver General of $10000 is considered to have been remitted on January 29, 2007.
noun rɪˈmɪt(ə)lrəˈmɪdl mass noun1Cancellation of a debt or punishment. remittal of fiscal obligations Example sentencesExamples - Again, on page 20 at about line 5 his Honour repeats that and also mentions that there are in excess of about 100 matters still in the High Court awaiting remittal.
- Your Honour, may I respond to a couple of the points of my learned friend in regard to the issue of remittal to the Federal Court, or do you think that is unnecessary?
- So you say, one, there cannot be remittal because of section 476 and, secondly, you say in any event the matter should be dismissed?
- the applicant consents to the remittal of the matter
- count noun remittals to an adjudicator
- my clients' preference would be for remittal to the Federal Court
2The action of referring a matter for decision to an authority. - 2.1Law The action of referring a case from one court to another, especially to a lower court.
noun rɪmɪˈtiː A remitter shall deduct and withhold from each payment of oil and gas proceeds being made to a remittee an amount equal to the rate specified in Subsection C of this section multiplied by the gross amount that otherwise would have been payable to the remittee. Example sentencesExamples - A remittance system in a financial institution automatically generates a temporary remittance account based on the contents of a remittance, and clears the temporary remittance account after a remittee withdraws the remittance with a proper procedure.
noun rɪˈmɪtərəˈmɪdər The large number of married remitters suggests that in some cases weavers are remitting to spouses who do not live in Kathmandu, rather than to parental households. Example sentencesExamples - Slightly more than one half of the 290 patients who had ECT continued in the study as remitters.
- Further, in the alternative, if your Honour is against me on all of those arguments, we would say quite simply that the only costs that could be considered to be unnecessary would be the costs of the application for remitter.
- In the authority that I have referred to it is suggested that the Court should not, by making a remitter, alter the rights of the parties and that is intended to refer to giving one party an advantage over the other in the litigation.
- Those are points which can be agitated in the Court of Appeal on remitter if, but only if, the notice of appeal to the Court of Appeal is first amended, and you would need leave in the Court of Appeal to do so?
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin remittere 'send back, restore', from re- 'back' + mittere 'send'. The noun dates from the early 20th century. Rhymes acquit, admit, backlit, bedsit, befit, bit, Brit, Britt, chit, commit, demit, dit, emit, fit, flit, frit, git, grit, hit, intermit, it, kit, knit, legit, lickety-split, lit, manumit, mishit, mitt, nit, omit, outsit, outwit, permit, pit, Pitt, pretermit, quit, retrofit, sit, skit, slit, snit, spit, split, sprit, squit, submit, transmit, twit, whit, wit, writ, zit Definition of remit in US English: remitverbrəˈmɪt [with object]1Cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting (a debt or punishment) the excess of the sentence over 12 months was remitted Example sentencesExamples - Still, the harvest was down on the year before, and the miller was obviously in some difficulties, because he was remitted almost half his rent ‘by the kindness of the bishop’.
- Government and other institutions that owe billions of Kwacha in unpaid rate charges should work out programmes to remit the outstanding monies.
- As you will be aware, the punishment has already been remitted.
- He thinks that hell isn't that bad, and if God isn't angered, he might remit the punishment of the fallen angels anyway.
- The government must reconsider its position and put into place a system for remitting student debts for all those who enter the public sector.
- Where he, by deception, induces P. to remit his debt, he commits the offence under Section 2(a).
- This would be a radical departure from the current system where relatively long-term loans are made to developing countries, with the IMF remitting funds only as a long list of conditions are satisfied.
Synonyms cancel, set aside, revoke, repeal, rescind, abrogate, suspend - 1.1Theology Pardon (a sin).
2Send (money) in payment or as a gift. the income they remitted to their families Example sentencesExamples - People in large numbers went abroad for work and remitted their earnings.
- The Federation remits money to the university to pay for the alcohol and maintenance.
- With the growth of online banking, companies were remitting salaries online and customers were making payments without having to physically step into a bank.
- The payer must deduct standard rate income tax and remit it to the Revenue.
- Demands for payment were made and a partial payment was remitted.
- Money is also remitted to families from relatives in New Zealand.
- The total sum was eventually remitted to companies controlled by Ward in the United States.
- Mexicans working in the US remit an astounding $8 billion a year to Mexico, a figure nearly equal to total annual foreign investment in the country.
- Any rent received from the property is fully taxable in Ireland, even if you do not remit the rent to Ireland.
- He also called on the media to assist in sensitisation programmes especially on ensuring that correct taxes were remitted and consumers received proof of purchase from sellers.
- You can invest in anything, you don't need government approvals, you can remit your profits out, and there are no equity restrictions.
- After remitting the sale proceeds - minus 40 per cent commission - to the bookstall owner, he winds up the show.
- Currently, the tax code encourages firms to retain earnings and remit income to shareholders through share repurchases.
- If you plan to attend, please indicate this on the Congress registration form and remit the appropriate fee.
- There is, however, no doubt that mistakes can occur where money is remitted by means of a money-transfer order.
- If you grant me this appeal, then my friend from overseas is going to remit me some money and then I will be able to engage a barrister.
- Until 1999, we remitted no sums by way of hire for the 3 ships.
- In 1981, out-of-nation Pakistanis remitted $2 billion, which equaled thirty percent of the value of the nation's imports.
- Please remit the relevant amount to the office at your earliest convenience.
- He is just trying to get back at me for not remitting him the money he wanted for organizing some bloody graduation parties!
Synonyms send, dispatch, forward, transmit, convey 3Refer (a matter for decision) to some authority. the request for an investigation was remitted to a special committee Example sentencesExamples - It remits that appeal for ‘determination by him’.
- The jurisdiction of the arbitrator can only be protected if the award is also remitted to his reconsideration.
- The relief sought is quashing of the Inspector's decision, and remitting the matter to the Secretary of State.
- They are seeking legal costs and an order remitting the issue of their promotion to the PSC for reconsideration within 14 days.
- It is for him to decide, if I remit the matter to him, that particular issue.
- The appropriate course for me to take is to remit the matter to the disciplinary committee.
- They continued the hearing after having remitted back the critical issues to his Honour.
Synonyms pass, pass on, refer, send on, transfer, hand on, direct, assign, commit, entrust - 3.1Law Send back (a case) to a lower court.
Example sentencesExamples - These matters are remitted to the Ontario Court of Justice for the imposition of a sentence warranted in law.
- The amendments were made, then the case was remitted in that form.
- For that reason we submit that the appropriate course is to remit the matter to the Court of Appeal.
- I presume at some stage the question will arise whether, if the Full Court's approach was flawed, this Court should do more than set aside its order and remit the matter to it?
- So you say if we took this matter on, allowed the appeal and remitted the matter to the Court of Appeal to seek a recalculation, it would not necessarily involve any amount of money at all?
- 3.2Law Send (someone) from one tribunal to another for a trial or hearing.
- 3.3archaic Postpone.
the movers refused Mr. Tierney's request to remit the motion Synonyms postpone, defer, put off, put back, shelve, delay, hold off, hold over, stand over, suspend, prorogue, reschedule, keep in abeyance - 3.4archaic Consign again to a previous state.
thus his indiscretion remitted him to the nature of an ordinary person
4archaic no object Diminish. phobias may remit spontaneously without any treatment Example sentencesExamples - It has been suggested that few marital problems remit spontaneously.
Synonyms diminish, lessen, decrease, ease, ease up, abate, moderate, dwindle, wane, ebb, subside
nounrəˈmɪt 1British The task or area of activity officially assigned to an individual or organization. the committee was becoming caught up in issues that did not fall within its remit Example sentencesExamples - Some doctors seek to widen their professional remit to cover the entire range of human experience.
- He has a broader remit and has already started conducting his own inquiry.
- What spheres of activity might fall within the remit of an international liaison, given this context?
- Why is this relevant to a discussion of the commission's remit?
- Singular wine shops responded by extending their remit to beer and spirits.
- The legislation extends the commission's remit to deal with demand side management and energy efficiency.
- In addition, it reviewed one appeal against the decision by the Head of Programme Complaints that a complaint did not fall within the remit of the Programme Complaints Unit, which was not upheld.
- Covert video surveillance was research; it has been published as research and therefore did fall within the remit of the inquiry.
- They were also routinely involved with much that would later fall within the remit of secular government, through their concern with such issues as the laws of marriage, the administration of wills, and perjury.
- Since then, it has expanded far beyond its original remit.
- But whether it fulfils this remit is another matter.
- The board will expand its remit to cover public liability and motor accidents later this year.
- The government extended its remit as part of crime prevention across the aviation industry.
- The issue for her critics is the extent to which her populist approach has compromised the channel's public-service remit.
- But the Governors also recognised their responsibility for ensuring that BBC Radio continued to meet its public service remit.
- Under its remit, the Task Force is expected to carry out a full review of academic employment in the University.
- The station's public-service remit should guarantee that such a critical aspect of Irish life gets intelligent coverage.
- Of course the judiciary protest too much as they extend their remit.
- For the tribunal to be able to fulfil its remit, there were many legal difficulties to overcome.
- I have frequently said that Lord Hutton's remit was too narrow.
Synonyms area of responsibility, area of activity, sphere, orbit, scope, ambit, province, territory, realm, department, turf 2An item referred to someone for consideration.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin remittere ‘send back, restore’, from re- ‘back’ + mittere ‘send’. The noun dates from the early 20th century. |