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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

  1. verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
  2. verb To pledge or bind oneself to a course of action.
  3. verb To save a set of changes permanently, especially in software or version control.

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