Meaning

verb send (money) in payment

noun the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with

noun (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)

originFrom Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0