Remitted

Remitted is the past tense and past participle form of the verb remit. It has several related meanings across law, finance, medicine, and everyday use.

In legal and administrative contexts, to remit can mean to cancel, reduce, or refrain from enforcing a punishment or debt. A court might remit part of a sentence, or a government may remit a fine. In finance, to remit means to send money to another person or institution, often across borders; the sender is a remitter and the payment is a remittance.

In medical usage, to remit refers to the subsidence or temporary disappearance of symptoms or the disease itself. For example, a patient’s cancer may enter a remission, or fever and pain may remit after treatment. The term is commonly used in both ongoing and retrospective clinical descriptions.

Etymology traces remit to Latin remittere, meaning to send back or release, and it developed through Old French and other intermediaries into the modern terms remit and remittance. Related terms include remittance (the money sent), remitter (the sender of funds), and remission (the state of being in remission or the act of sending back or reducing a penalty in a broader sense).

Overall, remitted functions as a versatile verb form tied to yielding, sending, or lessening, with specific senses in law, finance, and medicine.