remise means A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.
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remise is pronounced /ɹɪˈmʌɪz/.
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman remis, Middle French remis, past participle of remettre (“to remit”); Middle French remise (noun), from feminine past participle of remettre (“to remit”).
noun
- A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.
- A house for covered carriages; a chaise house.e.g.“long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head” — 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
- A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise.
- A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.
- The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.
verb
- To send or give back.
- To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed; to quitclaim.
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