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Remittal

Definitions: Remittal

Remittal

Noun

1. A payment of money sent to a person in another place.

2. An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission".

3. The act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Remittal

Synonyms: absolution (n), remission (n), remission of sin (n), remitment (n), remittance (n), subsidence (n). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Remittal

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Business

Furthermore, since the remittal of the "Novel Food Regulation" (258/97/EEC), the import or production of many foodstuffs which are new to the European market (for example those containing GMOs) need permission from European authorities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Remittal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  remittal

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Remittal

Language Translations for "remittal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

връщане обратно. (various references)

   

Danish

  

forelægge sagen for appelkammeret (remittal of the case to the Board of Appeal). (various references)

   

French

  

déférer l'affaire la chambre de recours (remittal of the case to the Board of Appeal). (various references)

   

German

  

Erlassung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άφεση (absolution, discharge, dispensation, remission, shrift, unlatching, unlocking). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elengedés (release). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rinvio (adjournment, cross reference, cross-reference, postponement, prorogation, reference, referral, return, sending back, suspence). (various references)

   

Manx

  

maihys (remission). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emittalray

   

Portuguese

  

devolução do caso instância de recurso (remittal of the case to the Board of Appeal). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

anulare (annulment, avoidance, call off, cancellation, defeasance, defeat, effacement, nullification, remitment, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation), achitare (acquittal, acquittance, clearance, defrayal, disbursement, discharge, exoneration, liquidation, quittance, redemption, satisfaction). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

remisión (decrement, reference, referral, remission, transfer). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

відпущення гріхів (shrift), звільнення (acquittal, acquittance, affranchisement, amendment, bounce, deliverance, disengagement, dismissal, dismission, ejection, emancipation, enfranchisement, enlargement, exemption, exoneration, freedom, immunity, liberation, push, quit, quittance, release, remission). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Remittal

Derivations

Words beginning with "remittal": remittals. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Remittal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reital, Renitelo, revictual, revital. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Remittal"

Words rhyming with "remittal" (pronounced 'Re*mit"tal'): Abettal, Abuttal, Aconital, Acquittal, Alimental, Aliseptal, Antenatal, Antisacerdotal, Aplacental, Argental, Argumental, Assonantal, Atlantal, Attal, Bidental, Brutal, Cliental, Coincidental, Committal, Complemental, Complimental, Consonantal, Contrapuntal, Costal, Departmental, Detrimental, Detrital, Developmental, Dialectal, Diminutal, Distal, Documental, Dotal, Ectal, Ectental, Edental, Edictal, Electro-vital, Elemental, Emolumental, Ental, Equimomental, Equirotal, Excremental, Experimental, Extradotal, fatal, festal, fetal, firmamental. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Remittal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-r-t-t"

-1 letter: maltier, marlite, martlet, tertial.

-2 letters: armlet, attire, imaret, latter, litter, mailer, matter, milter, mitral, ramtil, ratite, rattle, remail, retail, retial, tailer, tilter, tramel.

-3 letters: aimer, alert, alter, ariel, armet, artel, atilt, email, irate, lamer, later, latte, liter, litre, maile, mater, matte, merit, metal, miler, miter, mitre, ramet, ramie, ratel, realm, relit, remit, retia.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: altimeter, altimetry, literatim, remittals.

 

+2 letters: altimeters, littermate, remittable.

 

+3 letters: altimetries, curtailment, detrimental, dilatometer, dilatometry, legitimator, littermates, maltreating, materialist, materiality, matriculate, mortalities, recommittal, restimulate, temporality, tetrazolium.

 

+4 letters: arithmetical, curtailments, detrimentals, dilatometers, dilatometric, extralimital, extramarital, instrumental, legitimators, materialists, matriculated, matriculates, mercantilist, metallurgist, meteoritical, metropolitan, mistranslate, multilateral, multipartite, multitracked, multivariate, recommittals, restimulated, restimulates, semiliterate, stigmasterol, stromatolite, tetrazoliums, ultraleftism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Remittal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 6D 69 74 74 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01101101 01101001 01110100 01110100 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#109 &#105 &#116 &#116 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 006D 0069 0074 0074 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5271797586866778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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