hire purchase vs remission

hire purchase

noun
  • A method of purchasing an item, where the buyer hires it and takes possession of it and pays regular installments. Ownership is only transferred on payment of the final amount. Abbreviated as HP. 

remission

noun
  • An act of remitting, returning, or sending back. 

  • A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour. 

  • A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt. 

  • An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent. 

  • A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing. 

  • A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal. 

  • Reflection or scattering of light by a material; reemission. 

verb
  • To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission. 

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