fee
Pronunciation: /fiː/
The English word “fee” has 12 meanings listed here.
noun
- An amount charged in return for permission to do something
- An amount charged ancillary to the (occasionally null) base cost of a product or service; an additional charge, nominally for some additional privilege, ability or permission.
- An amount charged for something: the base cost of purchasing some thing, service, etc.
- A fixed rate or price charged for (chiefly white-collar) professional services.
- 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).
- A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service.
- Synonym of fief: the land so held.
- An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service.
- Synonym of possession.
- Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
- A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English fee, fe, feh, feoh, from Old English feoh (“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”) with contamination from Old French fieu, fief (from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (see feud), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”); whence fief), both from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”), from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“livestock”).…
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