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Remit vt:

• * To forgive or pardon.
  * To refrain from exacting, inflicting or enforcing.
  * To let slacken.
  * To submit for consideration.
  * To put back.
  * To put off, postpone.
  * To send in payment.
  * To give up.

n 1. The act of remitting 2. (British) The area of responsibility.

At the moment I am reading a few manuscripts for a couple of journals and found n.2, which I thought was an unusual term.

* To put off, postpone.
* To give up.
* To send in payment.

Perhaps they should be in this order?