a period during which a serious illness improves for a time and the patient seems to get better （重病的）緩解期，減輕期 - in remission
The patient has been in remission for the past six months. 在過去的六個月中，病人的病情已經有所緩解。 The symptoms reappeared after only a short remission. 短暫的康複之後，症狀再次出現。 a period of remission 緩解期
- in remission
- (British English)
a reduction in the amount of time somebody spends in prison, especially because they have behaved well 減刑；減少服刑時間 With remission for good behaviour, he could be out by the end of the year. 由於表現良好而獲得減刑，他可能會在年底出獄。 She has been granted a remission of sentence. 她已獲準減刑。 He lost two months’ remission after he attacked another prisoner. 他襲擊另一名囚犯後，失去了兩個月的減刑。
- (formal)
an act of reducing or cancelling the amount of money that somebody has to pay （應付費用的）減少，免除
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, or from Latin remissio(n-), from remittere ‘send back, restore’, from re- ‘back’ + mittere ‘send’.