remit

1. 1.

   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”

   Broadertopic

   United Kingdom

2. 2.

   (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)

   Synonymsremissionremitment

   Broaderreferral

   law

Other forms of remit

plural

remits·

past tense or participle

remitted

present participle

remitting

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about remit

What does remit mean?

remit means "send (money) in payment". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in remit?

remit has 2 syllables: re-mit. The stress falls on "mit". In IPA it is /ɹiˈmɪt/.

What is another word for remit?

Close synonyms include postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is remit a common word?

remit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with remit?

10 words rhyme with remit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.