remit 主要有两个常见含义:
Please remit payment within 30 days of receiving the invoice.
请在收到发票后30天内汇款。
The investigation fell outside the committee's remit, so they had to refer it to a higher authority for further review.
该调查超出了委员会的职权范围,因此他们不得不将其移交给上级机构作进一步审查。
remit 源自拉丁语 remittere,由 **re-**(回)和 mittere(发送)组成,原意为"送回、退还"。在中古英语时期经由古法语 remettre 传入英语。最初有"宽恕、免除(罪罚)"之意,后来逐步发展出"汇款"和"移交(事务)"等含义。名词用法"职责范围"则是从"被移交处理的事务"这一概念引申而来。