1. Send (money) in payment
   "remit $25"
    
2. Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
   "The judge remitted the case to the lower court for review";
   - remand, send back
    
3. Release from (claims, debts, or taxes)
   "The taxes were remitted"
    
4. Forgive
   "God will remit their sins"
    
5. Hold back to a later time
   "They decided to remit the decision until next week";
   - postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table [N. Amer], shelve, set back, defer, put off, put back
    
6. Make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
   "The judge remitted part of the sentence";
   - slacken
    
7. Diminish or abate
   "The pain finally remitted"

1. [Brit] The topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with
   "they set up a group with a remit to suggest ways for strengthening family life";
   - brief, responsibility
    
2. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
   "The case's remit to the appeals court was expected";
   - remission, remitment [rare]

Derived forms: remitting, remitted, remits

Type of: cancel, challenge, come down, decrease, delay, dent, diminish, fall, forgive, go down, issue, lessen, loose, loosen, matter, pardon, pay, referral, sink, strike down, subject, topic

Encyclopedia: Remit