remission meaning

Noun: remission  ri'mishun

1. An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
   "his cancer is in remission"
   - remittal, subsidence 
2. A payment of money sent to a person in another place
   - remittance, remittal, remitment 
3. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
   - remitment, remit 
4. The act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
   - absolution, remittal, remission of sin

Derived forms: remissions

See also: remit

Type of: abatement, hiatus, payment, redemption, referral, reprieve, respite, salvation, suspension

Part of: penance

Encyclopedia: Remission

[Business]
noun [U,C]

1 (formal)

an act of reducing or cancelling the amount of money that sb has to pay:

New businesses may qualify for tax remission.

There is a partial remission of fees for people claiming benefit.

The remission from interest payments on bank loans will not be enough to save the coffee planters.

2

a period during which a bad situation improves although it is likely to become bad again:

With brief periods of remission, the insurance company has been in crisis ever since the early 1990s.

Inflation is beginning to haunt Brazil's economy again after years in remission.

[Law]
n. Cancellation of part of a prison sentence. Formerly, a prisoner could earn remission of one-third of his sentence by good behaviour in prison and was released upon remission without any conditions. However, a prisoner serving an extended sentence, or a prisoner serving more than 18 months' imprisonment, who was under the age of 21 when sentenced, could only be released on licence (see PAROLE). Remission of a sentence for good conduct was abolished by the Criminal Justice Act 1991, which specifies the conditions now required for the early release of prisoners.

[Medicine]
n : a state or period during which the symptoms of a disease are abated ‹cancer in remission following chemotherapy› —compare ARREST, CURE 1 INTERMISSION

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1. remission of sins is promised to those who repent.
2. no remissions of examination fees are allowed.
3. chronic nonspecific ulcerative colitis is a disease with exacerbations and remissions.
4. prolonged remission or cure of patients following incomplete removal of their cancers is not uncommon.
5. remission of stamp duty-exchange traded fund