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The invisible fence around your job that everyone discovers by stepping outside it.
means The specific area of responsibility or authority officially assigned to a person, group, or task.
from From Latin remittere — 'to send back' — via Old French remettre. The sense shift is logical once you trace it: a matter would be 'sent back' or referred to the proper authority for decision, and that authority's proper sphere of action became its 'remit.' The same Latin root also gave English 'remit' meaning to forgive a debt or send money, and 'remittance' — all variations on the idea of sending something where it belongs.
- origin
- Latin remittere, to send back
- office use
- Defines blame before it defines duty
- expansion
- Grows only in meetings, never in writing
- synonym trap
- Not the same as responsibility, despite appearances