Commit and Remit

commit

(v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
(v.t.) To confound.
(v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
(v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
(v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
(v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
(v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- synonyms: invest, put, place
Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

remit

The topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with.
- usage: "they set up a group with a remit to suggest ways for strengthening family life"
Law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court. ()
- synonyms: remission, remitment

Send (money) in payment.
- usage: "remit $25"
Hold back to a later time.
- usage: "let's postpone the exam"
- synonyms: postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, put off
Release from (claims, debts, or taxes. )
- usage: "The taxes were remitted"
Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision.
- synonyms: remand, send back
Forgive.
- usage: "God will remit their sins"
Make slack as by lessening tension or firmness.
- synonyms: slacken
Diminish or abate.
- usage: "The pain finally remitted"

(v.t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
(v.t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
(v.t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
(v.t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
(v.t.) To restore.
(v.t.) To transmit or send, especially to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
(v.t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
(v.i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
(v.i.) To send money, as in payment.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

To pay for purchases by cash, check, or electronic transfer.