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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Remission.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A remitting; a giving up; surrender.
  • noun The act of sending, as money; remittance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A remitting; a giving up; surrender.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Anything remitted; remittance

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
  • noun a payment of money sent to a person in another place
  • noun an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)

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Examples

  • They would have the opportunity to specify on their tax remittal form how they would choose to allocate their taxes between roads and transit.

    Sound Politics: A modest proposal for transportation budgeting 2006

  • And it's just sort of out there, you know, John McCain, is he tempt remittal, is he this?

    CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2008 2008

  • The parents sought an order for the remittal to their attorneys of medical reports by district surgeons, in the possession of the police, that arose out of any examination or visit under section

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • (free school meals and books, remittal of outstanding public utility debts), as well as social-housing and Roma integration programmes.

    Budapest Times 2009

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