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How to use remit in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb, noun

Remit means to transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply. Example: “The inquiry had a wide remit.”

Examples of remit by meaning

verbTo transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

  • The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament.2003: The Hindu, World Cup sponsors can remit money in forex: SC read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060308013536/http://www.hinduonnet.co...

verbTo refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.

  • to remit the performance of an obligation

nounTerms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.

  • However, this is beyond the remit of this particular article.2001: H. Meinardi et al, ILAE Commission, The treatment gap in epilepsy: the current situation and ways forward read at...
  • Create one IS organisation and extend remit to all HE activities.2003: Andy Macleod, Cisco Systems, Pulling it all together - the 21st Century Campus read at...
  • As an adjunct to the new corporate plan, the sector produced a 20-page prospectus explaining how it would fulfil its remit, which was approved by the Minister.2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in Rail, page 66

More sentences with remit

  • The inquiry had a wide remit.From the entry wide
  • There has been some criticism that the ORR is overreaching its remit in making this decision.2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 33. From the entry overreach
  • The BTC had no clear plan how to fulfil its remit to break even, year-on-year.2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43. From the entry break even
  • Its remit was to operate on a break-even basis, with sustained losses unacceptable.2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 38. From the entry unacceptable
  • But commercial timber and fish species are increasingly coming under the CITES remit, despite strong opposition from both industries.2014, Rosalind Reeve, Policing International Trade in Endangered Species, →ISBN, page 315. From the entry cites
  • Recommendation 14.2 of this report stated 'the Government should appoint an “e-envoy” with a wider remit than originally proposed.2004, Stephen Battersby, W. H. Bassett, Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health, page 187. From the entry e-envoy
  • Its international remit was transferred to the newly created International Business Wales (IBW), which sat within the then Department for the Economy and Transport.2014 October 22nd, Welsh Affairs Committee, International representation and promotion of Wales by UK bodies (HC 2014–15 337; Fifty-fifth…. From the entry IBW
  • The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian. From the entry should
  • The perennial problem, especially for the BBC, has been to reconcile the hyperbole-driven agenda of newspapers with the requirement of balance, which is crucial to the public service remit.2001, Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones, The Moral Universe. From the entry hyperbole
  • Trust funds do not have to be remitted to The Bahamas and the settlor does not have to be resident or physically present in The Bahamas.1975, Doing Business in the Bahamas, Price, Waterhouse, page 16. From the entry The Bahamas

Meaning of remit

  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.

Full definition of remit

Questions about remit in a sentence

How do you use remit in a sentence?
Remit is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The inquiry had a wide remit.”
What is a short sentence with remit?
“The inquiry had a wide remit.”
What does remit mean?
Remit means to transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: remit (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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