Usually means: Send payment; assign a task.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word remit:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. remit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. remit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. remit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. remit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. remit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Remit, remit: Wordnik
  7. remit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. remit: Wiktionary
  9. remit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. remit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. remit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. remit: Dictionary.com
  13. remit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. remit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Remit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Remit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. remit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. remit: Rhymezone
  19. remit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. remit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. remit: Free Dictionary
  22. remit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. remit: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. remit: Legal dictionary
  5. Remit: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. remit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Remit: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. remit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. remit: Idioms

(Note: See remitment as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
verb:  (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To give up; omit; cease doing.
verb:  (transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To diminish, abate.
verb:  (transitive) To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To send back.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
verb:  (transitive) To restore or replace.
verb:  (transitive) To postpone.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.
noun:  (chiefly British) Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
noun:  (law) A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.

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