0 to reduce a period of time that someone must spend in prison:
2 the area that a person or group of people in authority has responsibility for or control over:
The remit of this official inquiry is to investigate the reasons for the accident.
4 the types of activity that a person or organization has responsibility for:
The Treasury's remit has never been more wide-ranging than it is now.
As independent broadcasters, it is part of our remit to cater for minority audiences and promote diversity.
Her appointment to the board comes with a remit to focus on its corporate social responsibility.
have a/no remit to do sth The Commission had the remit to consider how small companies could compete in the public-sector market.
be/fall outside sb's remit Where a case falls outside the ombudsman's remit, the aggrieved customer has no alternative but to take the company involved to court.
be/fall within/under sb's remit Many such cases will fall within the remit of the small claims court.
His remit includes strategy development, and pricing and packaging issues, as well as regulatory affairs.
5 to send money to someone, especially as a payment for something:
remit sth to sb/sth The British parent company of a multinational group may need to remit profits from its foreign subsidiaries to Britain, so that it has enough money to pay its own dividends.
remit taxes/proceeds/funds Legislation requires businesses to collect and remit sales tax on a six-monthly basis.
6 to order a legal case to be dealt with in a different court of law:
be remitted to the court/tribunal The case will be remitted to the tribunal for reconsideration.
7 to state legally that someone does not have to do something, for example pay a debt:
The fine was calculated at £3,500 but was subsequently remitted.
Effects of tryptophan depletion in fully remitted patients with seasonal affective disorder during summer.
They remitted capital in the form of money to their places of birth.
Autobiographical memories in women remitted from major depression.
Impairments of neuropsychological tests of temporohippocampal and frontohippocampal functions and word fluency in remitting schizophrenia and affective disorders.
Domesticated pragmatism in turn leads to a conservative, antiphilosophical philosophy and a conservative, antipolitical politics, remitting us to the worshipful acceptance of established practices.
The speech of manic patients is more affectively responsive than the speech of remitted, bipolar depressed and normal participants.
There was no difference in exposure to undesirable life events before onset of disorder between remitted and persistent groups.
In the standard economic model of taxpayer behaviour, the perceived quality of government does not influence the level of taxes remitted.
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