| 单词 | remit |
| 释义 | remit (once / 682 pages) 1v 2v 3vn 4v 5n If you send your client a bill for your consulting services, be sure to include your address so he knows where to remit the payment. Remit means send back, and it has many uses. If you remit payment, you send it back to the person you owe it to. If you’ve been in prison for five years of a seven-year sentence but you’ve been on good behavior, a judge might remit the remainder of your sentence and let you go free. If you have a chronic illness and it seems to clear up or go away, we say it is in remittance. WORD FAMILYremit: remission, remitment, remits, remittance, remitted, remittent, remitting+/remission: remissions/remittance: remittances/remitting: unremitting/unremitting: unremittingly USAGE EXAMPLESThe number of states to which Amazon remits sales tax will top 30 when Nebraska and Iowa join the ranks starting in 2017. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Wahls will observe 100 people with relapsing–remitting MS for 12 weeks before splitting them randomly into the Swank or the Wahls treatment. Nature(Nov 29, 2016) Freedman, for example, is collaborating with colleagues to enrol 40 patients with either relapsing–remitting or secondary progressive MS into a Canadian trial called MESCAMS. Nature(Nov 29, 2016) 1 1v send (money) in payment remit $25 Hyper pay give money, usually in exchange for goods or services 2v hold back to a later time 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, set back, shelve, table call stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather holdstop dealing with suspendrender temporarily ineffective probateput a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence reprieve, respitepostpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution delay act later than planned, scheduled, or required 1v release from (claims, debts, or taxes) The taxes were remitted Hyper cancel, strike down declare null and void; make ineffective 2v forgive 3God will remit their sins Hyper forgive stop blaming or grant forgiveness 1v refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision Syn|Hyper remand, send back challenge issue a challenge to 2n (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) 4Syn|Hyper remission, remitment referral the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency) 1v make slack as by lessening tension or firmness Syn|Hypo|Hyper slacken douse, dowse slacken loose, loosen make loose or looser 2v diminish or abate 5The pain finally remitted Hyper decrease, diminish, fall, lessen decrease in size, extent, or range n 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 Hyper issue, matter, subject, topic some situation or event that is thought about |
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