Release; discharge or relinquishment of a claim or right; as the remission of a tax or duty. REMISSION.

In medicine, abatement; a temporary subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as distinguished from intermission, in which the disease leaves the patient entirely for a time.

In commerce, the act of transmitting money, bills or the like, to a distant place, in return or payment for goods purchased.

The sum or thing remitted in payment.