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remitted

[ ri-mit-id ]

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adjective

(of money) having been sent or transmitted to a person or place, usually as payment:
Any remitted money must be in U.S. currency.
(of a debt, offense, etc.) having been forgiven or pardoned:
Our envoys shall not have the right to extort payment of remitted fines from those destitute persons whom the emperor has forgiven.
Law. (of a hearing or other legal proceeding) having been put off or deferred, or having been sent back to a lower court for reconsideration:
The judge undertaking the remitted welfare hearing will clearly expect the freedom to independently consider all the evidence and make her own findings about it.
Medicine/Medical. (of a patient or a disease) having had the symptoms decrease or subside; in remission:
Our study indicates that without continuous active treatment, virtually all remitted patients relapsed within 6 months.
Few studies have focused on cognitive deficits in a remitted state of major depressive disorder.
Physics. (of light) reflected or scattered back, rather than transmitted through a material:
An optical fiber delivers light to the tissue region of interest, and a second optical fiber collects the remitted photons.

In 2011, it remitted more than $75 billion to the Treasury on some $77.4 billion it made in profit.

Instead, however, of one or two, it was many years before the full sentence was remitted.

On this explanation the Central Authority (whilst upholding the auditor's decision in point of law) remitted the surcharge.

He was remitted to Bedlam, and became an awful warning that God will not always be insulted with impunity.

No less than three letters were written to Humphreys; money was remitted; but all hopes of defence were futile.

Their coming seems to have been acceptable, for the Assembly upon petition remitted to them the importation tax.

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