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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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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