remit

About 0.80 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
2. verb To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offense, etc.).
3. verb To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.

   to remit the performance of an obligation

4. verb To give up; omit; cease doing.
5. verb To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
6. verb To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
7. verb To diminish, abate.
8. verb To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).

Similar words

send back remand put over defer postpone put off set back slacken shelve hold over

Often followed by

the to of a it and or any in

Word family

remitment remitments remits remittable remitted remitter remitters remitting