a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.
a sum paid or charged for a privilege: an admission fee.
a charge allowed by law for the service of a public officer.
Law.
an estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple ) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail ).
an inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
a territory held in fee.
a gratuity; tip.
verb (used with object),feed,fee·ing.
to give a fee to.
Chiefly Scot.to hire; employ.
Origin of fee
1250–1300; Middle English <Anglo-French; Old French fie, variant of fieffief. See feudal
SYNONYMS FOR fee
1 stipend, salary, emolument; honorarium.
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OTHER WORDS FROM fee
feeless,adjectiveo·ver·fee,nounsu·per·fee,noun
Words nearby fee
fedora, Fed. Res. Bd., Fed. Res. Bk., fed to the gills, fed up, fee, feeb, feeble, feeble-minded, feed, Feed a cold; starve a fever
The corporate partners pay a subscription fee per year to post courses, and students can access all courses for free.
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Unless he gets a respite from another court, the rapper will appear on just 12 ballots, three of them in states where he needed only to pay a fee for access.
The Trailer: The First State goes last|David Weigel|September 15, 2020|Washington Post
With corporate travel you can cancel change fees but sometimes you still won’t get the full refund on the ticket.
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The firm has 45 commitments from investors, including many in the $1 billion range, it said without specifying whether the money is heading into the high-fee Pure Alpha hedge funds or low fee long-only products.
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Now Arm is being acquired by one of those competitors, which may use its position to hike licensing and royalty fees on its rivals or to deny them access to the latest technology.
Why Nvidia’s purchase of Arm worries the U.K. tech sector|Jeremy Kahn|September 14, 2020|Fortune
The Federal Duck Stamp Act raised the fee on stamps needed to hunt waterfowl on federal land from $15 to $25.
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Meanwhile CBS announced a similar deal this year that will offer their catalogue of shows online for a monthly fee.
Binge Watching is the New Bonding Time|The Daily Beast|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead, your $25 entry fee gets you a sketchbook that appears handmade.
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This fee, however, was not “global” enough to include hospital charges or anything else on a long list of exclusions.
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I began with the simplest cost I could think of, the fee for some routine blood work I had scheduled for later that month.
Despite ObamaCare, US Health System Still a Complete Mess|Molly Worthen|October 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That doctor who came daily, fee or no fee, to visit the sick one, was he really a good doctor?
Dust of New York|Konrad Bercovici
Now therell be a ten dollar fee to payyou have a little money?
The Bail Jumper|Robert J. C. Stead
I would have paid that fee myself, but I want money now as I leave town tonight.
The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 1, 1853-1866|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
These will be found to be supportable matters, as well as the Fee of Office, which is our ground-work.
Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times; Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous|Samuel Pegge
If the deceased died in a hospital, infirmary, or lunatic asylum, the medical witness is not paid any fee.
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British Dictionary definitions for fee
fee
/ (fiː) /
noun
a payment asked by professional people or public servants for their servicesa doctor's fee; school fees
a charge made for a privilegean entrance fee
property law
an interest in land capable of being inheritedSee fee simple, fee tail
the land held in fee
(in feudal Europe) the land granted by a lord to his vassal
an obsolete word for a gratuity
in fee
law(of land) in absolute ownership
archaicin complete subjection
verbfees, feeingorfeed
rareto give a fee to
mainlyScotto hire for a fee
Derived forms of fee
feeless, adjective
Word Origin for fee
C14: from Old French fie, of Germanic origin; see fief