Payment vs Remit - What's the difference?
payment | remit |
(uncountable) The act of paying.
(countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.
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, title= To forgive, pardon.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 307:
To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
* Macaulay
To give up, stop succumbing to (a negative emotion etc.).
To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
(obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of) a specified quality.
*, New York 2001, p.132-3:
(obsolete) To diminish, abate.
*, Book I, New York 2001, p. 139:
To refer (something) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
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* Hayward
* Dryden
To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
To restore.
* Hayward
To postpone.
To transmit or send, as money in payment.
* 2003:' The Hindu, ''World Cup sponsors can '''remit money in forex: SC read at [http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/02/01/stories/2003020104090100.htm] on 14 May 2006
(chiefly, British) terms of reference; set of responsibilities.
* 2000: Scientific Working Group on Good Laboratory Practice issues, Handbook: Good Laboratory Practice read on World Health Organisation website at [http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/publications/pdf/glp-handbook.pdf] on 14 May 2006:
* 2001: H. Meinardi et al, ILAE Commission, The treatment gap in epilepsy: the current situation and ways forward read at on 14 May 2006:
* 2003: Andy Macleod, Cisco Systems, Pulling it all together - the 21st Century Campus read at on 14 May 2006:
* 2012 , The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue,
As a noun payment
is (uncountable) the act of paying.As a verb remit is
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English
Noun
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Synonyms
*Derived terms
* down payment * grease payment * lubrication payment * payment in kindExternal links
* (wikipedia "payment")remit
English
Verb
(remitt)- So he said that there was no sin to remit in baptism: ‘sin is not born with a man, it is subsequently committed by the man; for it is shown to be a fault, not of nature, but of the human will’.
- to remit the performance of an obligation
- The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties.
- Great Alexander in the midst of all his prosperity […], when he saw one of his wounds bleed, remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride.
- Dotage, fatuity, or follyis for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].
- In the case the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right.
- In grievous and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince.
- The prisoner was remitted to the guard.
- The archbishop wasremitted to his liberty.
- The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament.
Derived terms
* remitter * unremitting (via remitting)Noun
(en noun)- WHO/TDR should prepare a volume containing ... important issues in the performance of studies that fall outside of the GLP remit .
- However, this is beyond the remit of this particular article.
- Next steps ... Create one IS organisation and extend remit to all HE activities.
Chile's economic statistics: For reacher - or poorer
- [...] Chile needs to gather together its statisticians into a single agency, such as a new and improved INE, and give it more autonomy and a broader remit .