Meaning of fee | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An amount charged for a privilege.
2. A surname.
3. fare (money paid for a transport ticket)
4. An amount charged for a privilege
5. An amount charged for professional services.
6. A diminutive of the female given name Fiona.
7. in fee, in full ownership: an estate held in fee.
8. An amount charged for professional services
9. An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.
10. third-person singular present indicative
11. the price paid for work done by a doctor, lawyer etc or for some special service or right. the lawyer's fee; an entrance fee; university fees. vergoeding, honorarium, loon رَسْم، أتْعاب، أجْر хонорар pagamento honorář; vstupné; poplatek die Gebühr honorar; salær; afgift; -afgift αμοιβή, εγγραφή, δίδακτρα κτλ. honorarios; matrícula maks, tasu حق الزحمه؛ ورودیه maksu honoraires, droit, frais שְׂכַר טִרחָה शुल्क फीस pristojba, honorar díj, honorárium biaya þóknun, gjald onorario; tassa 料金 수수료, 요...
    etc
12. (Can we verify this sense?) An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost
13. An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail).
14. second-person singular imperative
15. honorario, cuota.
16. An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail)
17. A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service.
    historical
18. A fixed sum charged, as by an institution or by law, for a privilege: a license fee; tuition fees.
19. A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service
20. Synonym of fief: the land so held.
    historical
21. A charge for professional services: a surgeon's fee.
22. An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service.
    historical
23. A tip; a gratuity.
24. Synonym of possession.
    figuratively, obsolete
25. Law See fee simple.
    Law
26. Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
    obsolete
27. In feudal law, an estate in land granted by a lord to his vassal on condition of homage and service. Also called feud2, fief.
    feud
28. A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
    obsolete
29. To give a tip to.
30. Scots To hire.
    Scots

Equivalents

Examples

“late fee; license fee, admission fee; activation fee; service fee”

“legal fees; consulting fees”

“Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.”

“Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;”

“What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee.”

“Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.”

“For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee.”

“Then turning to Fiona, she said, “Fee, I'll only be a minute. […]”

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