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DictionaryremitSending payment
verb

remit

ri-MIT/rimˈɪt/

To send something to another recipient or authority.

The person remits money through the bank teller's window.

A person sends money through a bank teller window, cash sliding onto counter and receipt returned.
Etymology
reLatinback
+mitLatinsend

The elements originally meant “send back.” The financial sense makes sending the central idea: to remit money is to send it to someone in payment.

In context

Libranima296:12
I’ve thirty- five roubles to remit to you, as Semyon Semyonovitch has received from Afanasy Ivanovitch at your mamma’s request
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky (Illustrated Audiobook) Part 1 of 2

More examples

  • Please remit the full amount within thirty days.
  • She remitted part of her earnings to her parents.
  • The appeals court remits the case to the lower court.

Forms

remit · remits · remitted · remitting

remittance noun — Money sent to someone as a payment.

Similar words

send
Broader and less formal; applies to much more than payments.
transfer
Emphasizes moving money between accounts, people, or institutions.
refer
Applies to directing matters to another authority, not sending payments.