fee
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.
to give a fee to.
Chiefly Scot. to hire; employ.
Origin of fee
1Other words for fee
Other words from fee
- feeless, adjective
- o·ver·fee, noun
- su·per·fee, noun
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How to use fee in a sentence
The corporate partners pay a subscription fee per year to post courses, and students can access all courses for free.
Forage, formerly InsideSherpa, raises $9.3 million Series A for virtual work experiences | Natasha Mascarenhas | September 17, 2020 | TechCrunchUnless 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.
With corporate travel you can cancel change fees but sometimes you still won’t get the full refund on the ticket.
Are you ready to start traveling for work again? TripActions’ CEO is banking on it | Michal Lev-Ram, writer | September 15, 2020 | FortuneThe 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.
The losses continue to pile up for hedge fund king Ray Dalio | Bernhard Warner | September 15, 2020 | FortuneNow 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
These “free” games display ads, often in obnoxious places, in lieu of the entry fee.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art | Alec Kubas-Meyer | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe user fee on duck stamps goes exclusively to funding federal acquisition of wetlands as wildlife habitat.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive | Ben Jacobs | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Federal Duck Stamp Act raised the fee on stamps needed to hunt waterfowl on federal land from $15 to $25.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive | Ben Jacobs | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMeanwhile 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 Watched a Casino Kill Itself: The Awful Last Nights of Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal | Olivia Nuzzi | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI was proud of my début as an arbitrator, especially as it was rewarded by, what seemed to me then, a very handsome fee.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowA country girl, riding by a turnpike-road without paying toll, the gate-keeper hailed her and demanded his fee.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousIf 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.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyWhen the Turks saw a destroyer come bustling up at an unusual hour they said to themselves, "fee faw fum!"
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for fee
/ (fiː) /
a payment asked by professional people or public servants for their services: a doctor's fee; school fees
a charge made for a privilege: an entrance fee
property law
an interest in land capable of being inherited: See 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
archaic in complete subjection
rare to give a fee to
mainly Scot to hire for a fee
Origin of fee
1Derived forms of fee
- feeless, adjective
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