noun
1.
a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.
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.
a.
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)
b.
an inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
c.
a territory held in fee.
5.
a gratuity; tip.
verb (used with object)
6.
to give a fee to.
7.
Chiefly Scot. to hire; employ.
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fee (fiː) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a payment asked by professional people or public servants for their services: a doctor's fee; school fees |
| 2. | a charge made for a privilege: an entrance fee |
| 3. | property law |
| a. fee simple See fee tail an interest in land capable of being inherited | |
| b. 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 |
| a. law (of land) in absolute ownership | |
| b. archaic in complete subjection | |
| —vb , fees, feeing, feed | |
| 7. | rare to give a fee to |
| 8. | chiefly (Scot) to hire for a fee |
| [C14: from Old French fie, of Germanic origin; see | |
| 'feeless | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
fee
late 13c., from O.Fr. fieu, from M.L. feodum "land or other property whose use is granted in return for service," probably from Frank. *fehu-od "payment-estate," in which the first element is cognate with O.E. feoh "money, property, cattle" (also Ger. Vieh "cattle," Goth. faihu "money, fortune"), from
PIE *peku- "cattle" (cf. Skt. pasu, Lith. pekus "cattle;" L. pecu "cattle," pecunia "money, property"); second element similar to O.E. ead "wealth." Sense of "payment for services" first recorded late 14c. Fee-simple is "absolute ownership," as opposed to fee-tail "entailed ownership," inheritance limited to some particular class of heirs (from O.Fr. taillir "to cut, to limit").
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A toll is a tax or fee charged to travel via a road, bridge, tunnel or other route.
Individual members pay a membership fee, which is graduated according to income.
Included in it applications, however are leases in fee and fee farmlands.
Research fees are an extra charge on top of this minimum fee.
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