remit Add to list Share. ... Remit means send back, and it has many uses. If you remit payment, you send it back to the person you owe it to. If you've been in prison for five years of a seven-year sentence but you've been on good behavior, a judge might remit the remainder of your sentence and let you go free.

What does remit mean on an invoice?

Broadly speaking, any payment of an invoice or a bill can be called a remittance. However, the term is most often used nowadays to describe a sum of money sent by someone working abroad to his or her family back home. The term is derived from the word remit, which means to send back.

What does remit a decision mean?

If we set aside a decision, it means we agree or partially agree the original decision was wrong. We might replace it with a new decision or we might remit the decision which means we send the matter back to the department to make a new decision in accordance with our instructions or recommendations.