remettre — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bestow verb To give something formally or ceremonially, often as an honour.
- commit verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
- defer verb To put something off until a later time; to postpone.
- deliver verb To bring or take something to its intended destination.
- postpone verb To move an event or activity to a later time; to delay it.
- recover verb To get better after being ill, injured, or upset.
- remit verb To send money, especially as a payment.
Senses
remettre is used for these senses in English:
- bestow To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord; to render.
- commit (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- defer (intransitive) To delay, to wait.
- deliver To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
- hand in (transitive) To give something to a responsible person.
- hand over (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish control or possession of something to someone.
- postpone To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.
- re-lay (transitive) To lay (for example, flooring or railroad track) again.
commit — full definition
- verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
- verb To pledge or bind oneself to a course of action.
- verb To save a set of changes permanently, especially in software or version control.