remission
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6.5
- noun
- /rɪˈmɪʃən/
- Archaic
:
remesa
- In fact, 80 percent of American families could qualify for financial aid in an NAIS-member school, but only about 15 percent receive it (beyond the 5 percent receiving tuition remission because they are faculty children).
Examples
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You'll probably get a special remission.
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Here too, the required nexus to exports is vaguely stated; the test is "full or partial exemption, remission, or deferral specifically related to exports of direct taxes.
Fiction book (2000) -
You mean remission.
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My youngest daughter will be out of college then, and that'll be it for half-tuition remission from my university, and I bring down the entire profession.
Fiction book (1997) -
According to the NAIS Statistics 2004-05, 17.2 percent receive need-based aid, and 4.5 percent receive tuition remission.
Academic text (2006) -
The most important, relating to direct taxes, defines a subsidy as "the full or partial exemption, remission, or deferral specifically related to exports of direct taxes or social welfare charges paid or payable by industrial or commercial enterprises." 26
Fiction book (2000) -
The organization sent a monthly remission to help support families affected by the disaster.
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Every month, workers in the city receive a remission of their wages sent to their families abroad.
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He arranged for a remission to be paid regularly to his elderly parents living overseas.
Synonyms
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1.0
Something done or given to return help and make up for harm
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4.0
Money paid back to someone for costs they paid
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2.9
Money you return after you borrowed it
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7.0
An amount of money sent to someone in another country as payment or a gift
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6.7
A payment of money from a fund or account
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7.7
Paying out money from a fund
Sending money to another person as a payment
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Etymology
Remission comes from the Latin parts re- 'back' and mittere 'to send'. So a helpful way to remember the payment sense is to think of money 'sent back' to family or home, like in the word transmit which also means 'to send'.