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: --
His remit includes strategy development, and pricing and packaging issues, as well as regulatory affairs.
be/fall within/under sb's remit Many such cases will fall within the remit of the small claims court.
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.
have a/no remit to do sth The Commission had the remit to consider how small companies could compete in the public-sector market.
Her appointment to the board comes with a remit to focus on its corporate social responsibility.
As independent broadcasters, it is part of our remit to cater for minority audiences and promote diversity.
The Treasury's remit has never been more wide-ranging than it is now.
5 to send money to someone, especially as a payment for something: --
remit taxes/proceeds/funds Legislation requires businesses to collect and remit sales tax on a six-monthly basis.
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.
To elucidate this issue, we investigated a group of remitted, highly functioning patients with schizophreniform disorder.
Moreover, these task deficits disappeared when symptoms remitted.
Saccadic disinhibition in patients with acute and remitted schizophrenia and their first-degree biological relatives.
Among the most important are the chronic and the cyclical or remitting - relapsing patterns.
Of the subjects who remitted by age 19, 27% had a subsequent mood episode by age 24.
One year later, 72% of these people could be classified correctly as remitted or not remitted based on the presence of negative0unpleasant dreams at baseline.
Her symptoms remitted after 2 weeks of lithium treatment 1,800 mg0day!, although she remained hospitalized until a stable home and school environment were in place.
In the standard economic model of taxpayer behaviour, the perceived quality of government does not influence the level of taxes remitted.
