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View synonyms for fee

fee

[ fee ]

noun

  1. a charge or payment for professional services:

    a doctor's fee.

    Synonyms: honorarium, emolument, salary, stipend

  2. a sum paid or charged for a privilege:

    an admission fee.

  3. a charge allowed by law for the service of a public officer.
  4. Law.
    1. 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.
    2. an inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
    3. a territory held in fee.
  5. a gratuity; tip.


verb (used with object)

, feed, fee·ing.
  1. to give a fee to.
  2. Chiefly Scot. to hire; employ.

fee

/ fiː /

noun

  1. a payment asked by professional people or public servants for their services

    school fees

    a doctor's fee

  2. a charge made for a privilege

    an entrance fee

  3. property law
    1. an interest in land capable of being inherited See fee simple fee tail
    2. the land held in fee
  4. (in feudal Europe) the land granted by a lord to his vassal
  5. an obsolete word for a gratuity
  6. in fee
    1. law (of land) in absolute ownership
    2. in complete subjection
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. rare.
    to give a fee to
  2. to hire for a fee
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈfeeless, adjective
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Other Words From

  • feeless adjective
  • over·fee noun
  • super·fee noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fee1

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French fie, variant of fief fief. See feudal
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fee1

C14: from Old French fie , of Germanic origin; see fief
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Example Sentences

These “free” games display ads, often in obnoxious places, in lieu of the entry fee.

The user fee on duck stamps goes exclusively to funding federal acquisition of wetlands as wildlife habitat.

The Federal Duck Stamp Act raised the fee on stamps needed to hunt waterfowl on federal land from $15 to $25.

Meanwhile CBS announced a similar deal this year that will offer their catalogue of shows online for a monthly fee.

For a large fee, you could be pushed down the boardwalk on a rolling wicker chair by a black worker.

I was proud of my début as an arbitrator, especially as it was rewarded by, what seemed to me then, a very handsome fee.

A country girl, riding by a turnpike-road without paying toll, the gate-keeper hailed her and demanded his fee.

If you killed on a job Carlson considered the danger greater and pushed up his fee accordingly.

If upon a boat, let one of the servants perform this office, being careful to fee him for it.

When the Turks saw a destroyer come bustling up at an unusual hour they said to themselves, "fee faw fum!"

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