REMIT
What does "REMIT" mean?
To send money in payment, or to cancel or reduce a debt or penalty.
Meanings
- To send money, especially in payment of a bill or to another place or person. Workers abroad remit billions home to their families each year.
- To cancel or refrain from exacting a debt, tax, or punishment. The judge remitted the rest of the fine. formal
- The area of responsibility or authority given to a person or body. Climate policy falls outside this committee's remit. formal
- Of an illness: to become less severe; to abate. The fever finally remitted on the fourth day. technical
Word origin
From Latin 'remittere', 'to send back, slacken', from 're-' ('back') plus 'mittere' ('to send'); the same 'mittere' gives 'mission', 'transmit', and 'submit'.
Remember it
RE-MIT: 'mit' is 'send' (as in transMIT). You send money back, or send a penalty away.
A little poem
He wires the wage across an ocean's width-
love measured out in what the post can lift.
couplet
What it teaches
The same act can mean paying a debt or forgiving one; intention decides which direction the gift flows.
Quick facts
What does REMIT mean?
To send money in payment, or to cancel or reduce a debt or penalty.
Is REMIT a valid word?
Yes — REMIT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is REMIT?
REMIT has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does REMIT come from?
From Latin 'remittere', 'to send back, slacken', from 're-' ('back') plus 'mittere' ('to send'); the same 'mittere' gives 'mission', 'transmit', and 'submit'.
What can REMIT teach us?
The same act can mean paying a debt or forgiving one; intention decides which direction the gift flows.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.