feenoun [ C ]
uk/fiː/us/fiː/B1 an amount of money paid for a particular piece of work or for a particular right or service:
legal fees
university fees
an entrance/registration fee
We couldn't pay the lawyer's fee.
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- The entrance fee is six pounds, two pounds for the unwaged.
- Someone proposed a motion to increase the membership fee to £500 a year.
- The students are holding a demonstration to protest against the increase in their fees.
- It was something of a hollow victory - she won the case but lost all her savings in legal fees.
- For a nominal fee, they will deliver orders to customers' homes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Costs & expenses
- aliment
- alimony
- asking price
- carrying charge
- charge
- compensation
- corkage
- cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
- cost-of-living index
- damage
- dent
- expense
- flat rate
- indirect cost
- maintenance
- price war
- running costs
- settlement
- stoppage
- worth
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