remit

The subjects, tasks, or decisions that a person or organization is responsible for.

• Safety is part of her remit.
• The committee's remit includes checking public spending.
• This issue falls outside our remit.

How to use it: within someone's remit (Staff training falls within my remit.); outside someone's remit (The dispute lies outside the committee's remit.); a remit to do something (The panel has a remit to review school funding.)

Similar words: scope, brief, terms of reference

Common phrases: within someone's remit, outside someone's remit, a broad remit

To send money to someone, usually as a payment.

• Please remit the full amount.
• They remitted the money to her account yesterday.
• Customers must remit payment within thirty days.

How to use it: remit something to someone/something (Please remit the payment to our bank account.)

Similar words: send, transfer

Common phrases: remit payment, remit the balance, remit money

To officially cancel a punishment, debt, or duty, so someone no longer has to face or pay it.

• The judge remitted the fine.
• Part of his prison sentence was remitted.
• The government agreed to remit the remaining debt.

Similar words: cancel, waive, forgive

Opposites: impose, enforce

Common phrases: remit a fine, remit a sentence, remit a debt