How to Use remit in a Sentence

remit

1 of 2 verb
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  • Payment can be remitted by check.
  • The governor remitted the remainder of her life sentence.
  • Please remit $1,000 upon receipt of this letter.
  • The city relies on Airbnb to collect the tax and remit it to the city.
    — Tony Bizjak and Kellen Browning, sacbee, 17 June 2018
  • Guests are charged the taxes on their bills and Airbnb then remits them to the state or city.
    — Nancy Sarnoff, Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2019
  • Please remit a deposit to my office in the amount of $7500.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The hotels then remit those taxes to the state and the state sends that money back to the county.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Since Airbnb will collect and remit taxes, the new agreement streamlines the process for both the hosts and the county.
    — Julia Sclafani, sacbee, 20 June 2018
  • The balance of the tax collection then would be remitted to Brook Park.
    — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Two ways to look at it both come with drawbacks—and lead to a big role for something outside the Fed’s remit: stock prices.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2019
  • The platforms would collect the taxes and remit them to the hosts, who would have to pay the county’s tax collector.
    — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 4 June 2019
  • Under the county’s deal, Airbnb collects taxes on behalf of its hosts and remits them back to the county at the end of the month.
    — Chabeli Herrera, miamiherald, 20 June 2017
  • Within one month, his depression began to remit for the first time in more than a year.
    — David H. Rosmarin, Scientific American, 15 June 2021
  • The company collects the sales tax and remits it to the state and local governments.
    — Salvador Rizzo, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • As part of her plea to failing to remit sales tax, Matsuda agreed to pay $4,914 in restitution to the state.
    — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The implication, of course, is that there will be earnings in the future and the Fed will remit those earnings to the Treasury.
    — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • If rentals are registered on websites like Airbnb, the website collects and remits the taxes to the state.
    — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 14 June 2019
  • Plaintiff claims the Upfront Price is often higher than the Fare, which is the basis of what is remitted to him.
    — David Kravets, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Once the assessments are received from the property tax collection, the city then remits that to the lender.
    — cleveland, 14 May 2020
  • Amazon collects sales tax in every state that charges one and remits it to the states, which is nearly every state.
    — Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The county filed motions asking the court to grant the officers a new trial and to remit the jury verdict.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Short-term rentals also have to collect and remit the city's 2% hotel, motel and restaurant sales tax.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2021
  • By April 1, funds that have not been claimed by and remitted to the entitled parties then go to the city’s finance director.
    — cleveland, 17 Oct. 2019
  • But the new decision means that those millions of small businesses may now need to collect and remit sales taxes in the 45 states that have them.
    — Laura Stevens, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • Meanwhile, the six other companies that were hired to perform testing at the nursing homes did not remit any money to the state.
    — Dave Altimari and Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Airbnb has collected this tax from guests since October 2014 and remits it directly to the city.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Prop CC would take away our grandkid’s grandkids right to decide whether to keep or remit excess tax refunds.
    — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 28 June 2019
  • Failure to remit the tax by the due date would result in a 5 percent penalty of the tax then due and interest on the unpaid principal of 1 percent a month.
    — David Ibata, ajc, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Online shoppers who reside in one of the 45 states that have a sales tax should have been reporting and remitting those levies to their state of residence.
    — Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2018
  • Very few taxpayers would remit wealth taxes, but many taxpayers would pay the price.
    — Aaron Kliegman, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2023
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remit

2 of 2 noun
  • Then owned by a friend of the Reffstrups, the pair took over in 2009 and widened the brand's remit with the help of just a couple of employees.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The remit: to create a work about the Black experience of the Civil War.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The Michelin Guide is expanding its remit once again, this time to Asia.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 June 2023
  • Changing the law is far beyond the remit of Sung and his researchers at the university.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The Black Widow stunt team had one very specific remit — to make a Marvel movie that didn't owe a debt in its ledger to the ones that had come before.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 July 2021
  • The care system and the generations of young people going through it need support and the work to be done is beyond the remit of JLP.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But your remit in your new job is larger than just terrorism.
    — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2021
  • But within that broad remit, the merits on which winners are judged appear to be evolving.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Woodson’s more immediate concern will be Maryland, a team with strong guards and a remit to drive the ball.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Those structural changes would fall into the ARGA’s remit.
    — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Daniel has worked with the outfit for two years and her remit is to help grow Docsville Studios’ slate of feature documentaries.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The remit of rock and roll is constantly expanding and evolving.
    — Vulture, 3 May 2022
  • Stoking the economy Still, the remit of the DFS is not just stability but driving growth.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • This approach still took the council well outside its remit and satisfied no one.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The remit of the office of home secretary includes law enforcement in England and Wales.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The remit of the New York Times public editor — before it was phased out in 2017 — was at least in part to provide such explanations.
    — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The pub is only really fun for me when things get rowdy, which is the exact remit of a club, and clubs already exist elsewhere.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Her remit is extremely broad — anything is fair game for her critic's quill.
    — Rhoda Feng, The Week, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The latter is the remit of public health rather than medicine, and has long been underfunded and undervalued.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • But Salke believes the studio’s approach fits Amazon’s broad remit.
    — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
  • If his remit was simply to navigate those big issues and keep the conference strong, on his way out the door, Warren can point to the future and the bottom line, and say job well done.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2023
  • He is expected to seek a new senior executive to fill Levin’s remit, a move that would mark his first senior hire.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Accordingly, Echevarria grants the Mason a wide remit in styling terms.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 1 June 2022
  • The pandemic era has expanded the remit of corporate boards of directors in a big way.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Special Counsel Smith’s remit will be much more focused.
    — Jennifer Rodgers, CNN, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Her marketing remit expanded to cover all the Nordics in 2017.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Part of his remit was to inject some levity into Carter’s speeches.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Mavahalli will have a remit to develop and produce a slate of original drama from Sky Studios in the U.K.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The aim - according to its remit - is to unlock a further £5 billion in investment from partners.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • But these steps went way beyond the Fed’s monetary-policy remit.
    — Jeb Hensarling, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022

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