remit

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Please remit payment in the enclosed envelope.

She used an app to remit a donation to the hurricane relief fund.

When he married Parwana, he even put an end to the small remittances I had been giving her.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, And The Mountains Echoed, 2013

Thus your share of Artiste's sale will come to a few dollars less than $500, which I shall remit to you by certified check this week I hope, or at least as soon as this transaction is completed.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

This is no place for a remittance man.  (source) Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1944

Meanwhile her taxes had been remitted.†  (source) William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily, 1930

I told you two days ago I wasn't going to await no remittances.†  (source) H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, 1897

He was, according to Leonora, always remitting his tenants' rents and giving the tenants to understand that the reduction would be permanent; he was always redeeming drunkards who came before his magisterial bench; he was always trying to put prostitutes into respectable places—and he was a perfect maniac about children.†  (source) Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915

But the attentions shown on this occasion were not merely honorary—they were the tribute of gratitude due to a man who after retirement from trials and services which were of 18 years unremitted continuance, hath again stepped forth to endeavor to establish and perpetuate that independence ...and which his exertions have so greatly contributed to produce.  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

And does it matter who is regent for little Lord Robert, so long as the Vale remits its taxes?  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Feast For Crows, 2005

We'll remit half your fee.†  (source) Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder, 1952

He certainly was laying out plenty for Agnes, whom he had met in Cuba; he paid her husband a remittance to stay there.†  (source) Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1949

The penalty also of being laughed out of court may not be remitted.†  (source) Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf, 1926

Once the fever remitted, she was able to sit up and eat.

The storm finally remitted.

But the curse of the place was not because of these advantages, such as they were, but in spite of them—this unremitted contact, as any one could see, with minds now terrorized and discolored by the thought of an approaching death that was so near for many that it was as an icy hand upon the brow or shoulder.  (source) Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, 1925

We have no trace of him at present, although our exertions to discover him are unremitted; but they will not restore my beloved William!  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

The pain finally remitted.†

Christians believe God remits their sins.

"'Tis the truth, Sam," he observed. "The lad risked the penalty to see justice done. I suggest you remit the sentence."  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

All penalty is remitted for your valour in battle, and still more because all that you did was for the love of the Lord Faramir.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, 1955

Pass the word that the peeper who locates Barbara D'Courtney for me will have his Guild taxes remitted for a year.  (source) Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man, 1953

Remember Jesus had got the legal penalty remitted before he said 'Go and sin no more.'  (source) William Morris, News from Nowhere, 1890

That decision falls outside the committee’s remit.

Education policy is not within the local council’s remit.

The story fascinates me, but it's outside my remit.†