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    remit

    verb

    • 1. cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting (a debt or punishment): "the excess of the sentence over 12 months was remitted" Similar cancelset asiderevokerepeal
    • 2. send (money) in payment or as a gift: "the income they remitted to their families" Similar senddispatchforwardtransmit

    noun

    • 1. the task or area of activity officially assigned to an individual or organization: British "the committee was becoming caught up in issues that did not fall within its remit"
    • 2. an item referred to someone for consideration: "a remit on the question failed"

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