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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.
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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
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
EXPANDPIE *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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