fee
/fiː/ noun A2- An amount charged in return for permission to do something · television license fee
- 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. · booking fee, late fee
- An amount charged for something: the base cost of purchasing some thing, service, etc. · admission fee, membership fee, drivers' license fee· the fee for entry to the zoo is increasing from 50 to 60 dollars
- A fixed rate or price charged for (chiefly white-collar) professional services. · lawyers' fees, tuition fee, bank fees, legal fees, consulting fee
- 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.
Plural fees
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His fees are high; his lessons are light—his high-lights have brought him renown.
We will leave Villefort on the road to Paris, travelling—thanks to trebled fees—with all speed, and passing through two or three apartments, enter at the Tuileries the little room with the arched window, so well known as having been the favorite closet of Napoleon and Louis XVIII., and now of Louis Philippe.
I listen to their story, they listen to my comments, and then I pocket my fee.”
“And you are quite right,” said the notary, who feared to lose his fee.
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