Is "Remit" A Noun?

[nq:1]Is "Remit" A Noun? 13 May 2004 "The Shah as a head of state who had sworn to preserve his ... from the likes of Mr. Shariati, the Tudeh communist party and terrorist organizations such as Mojaheddin Khalgh." >[/nq]
British use "remit" as Americans use "mandate,"
to indicate a defined sphere of authority.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

[nq:2]Is "Remit" A Noun? 13 May 2004 "The Shah as ... and terrorist organizations such as Mojaheddin Khalgh." >[/nq]
[nq:1]British use "remit" as Americans use "mandate," to indicate a defined sphere of authority.[/nq]
Britain restricts "mandate" to indicate things which are necessary to be done, and "remit" extends this to include things which are permitted to be done.
Matti

[nq:2]British use "remit" as Americans use "mandate," to indicate a defined sphere of authority.[/nq]
[nq:1]Britain restricts "mandate" to indicate things which are necessary to be done, and "remit" extends this to include things which are permitted to be done.[/nq]
Not entirely; we use mandate in the "permission" sense as well (especially in a political context). In particular, newly-elec

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[nq:2]Britain restricts "mandate" to indicate things which are necessary to be done, and "remit" extends this to include things which are permitted to be done.[/nq]
[nq:1]Not entirely; we use mandate in the "permission" sense as well (especially in a political context). In particular, newly-elected governments ... at least, feel that they're talking about having bee

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[nq:2]Not entirely; we use mandate in the "permission" sense as ... permission to do so, rather than having been obliged to.[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't know that politicians are the best people to ask about the exact meanings of words. Manifesto promises are ... the phrase "sea-change", now a mere shadow of its former self thanks to our politicians) and b) genera

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[nq:2] schrieb im Newsbeitrag I don't know that ... self thanks to our politicians) and b) generally being megalomaniac.[/nq]
[nq:1]Sorry, but I don't think the fact that you don't like or trust a particular group of people invalidates observations ... the sense of having been given the authority to do it, for as long as I've been speaking the language.[/nq]
A m

[nq:1]Incidentally, there is another meaning for the noun "remit", which, according to Webster's, can be used in both British and American English: it means "the act or an instance of remitting".[/nq]
Just a sideline, but can you tell us which version of Webster's you use? You know, like I always identify mine with W3NID just to show off that I got the big one!

Redwine
Hamburg

[nq:1]Is "Remit" A Noun? 13 May 2004 "The Shah as a head of state who had sworn to preserve his ... protecting his homeland from the likes of Mr. Shariati, the Tudeh communist party and terrorist organizations such as Mojaheddin Khalgh."[/nq]
I watched a BBC political broadcast, and Charles Kennedy used it every second sentence.
Perhaps it's a Brit thing, or at least a Brit Lib-Dem thing.

"Steve Hayes" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[nq:2]Is "Remit" A Noun? 13 May 2004 "The Shah as ... Tudeh communist party and terrorist organizations such as Mojaheddin Khalgh."[/nq]
[nq:1]I watched a BBC political broadcast, and Charles Kennedy used it everysecond sentence. Perhaps it's a Brit thing, or at least a Brit Lib-Dem thing. He pronounced it differently from the normal ve

I can understand that. I'd just never heard it used as a noun before, and was struck by the frequency with whch he used it.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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