Definitions for fee
fifee

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. feenoun

   a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services

2. feeverb

   an interest in land capable of being inherited

3. tip, fee, bungverb

   give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on

   "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. feenoun

   Cattle; livestock, especially considered as the basis of wealth.

2. feenoun

   Property; owndom; estate.

3. feenoun

   Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.

4. feenoun

   A monetary payment charged for professional services.

5. feenoun

   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).

6. feenoun

   An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.

7. feeverb

   To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

8. Etymology: From fee, fe, feh, feoh, from feoh, from fehu, from peku-. Cognate with fe, fie, vee, fee, Vieh, fæ, fä, fe, fé, pecu.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FEEnoun

   Etymology: feoh, Saxon; fee, Danish, cattle; feudum, low Latin; feu, Scottish.

   1. [In law.]All lands and tenements that are held by any acknowledgment of superiority to a higher lord. All lands and tenements, wherein a man hath a perpetual estate to him and his heirs, &c. are divided into allodium and feudum: allodium is every man’s own land, which he possesses merely in his own right, without acknowledgment of any service, or payment of any rent to any other. Feudum, or fee, is that which we hold by the benefit of another, and in name whereof we owe services, or pay rent, or both, to a superior lord. And all our land in England, the crown-land, which is in the king’s own hands, in right of his crown, excepted, is in the nature of feudum: for though a man have land by descent from his ancestors, or bought it for his money; yet is the land of such a nature, that it cannot come to any, either by descent or purchase, but with the burthen that was laid upon him who had novel fee, or first of all received it as a benefit from his lord, to him and to all such to whom it might descend, or be any way conveyed from him. So that no man in England has directum dominium, that is, the very property or demesne in any land, but the prince in right of his crown: for though he that has fee has jus perpetuum & utile dominium, yet he owes a duty for it, and therefore it is not simply his own. Fee is divided into two sorts; fee-absolute, otherwise called fee-simple, and fee-conditional, otherwise termed fee-tail: fee-simple is that whereof we are seized in those general words, To us and our heirs for ever: fee-tail is that whereof we are seised to us and our heirs, with limitation; that is, the heirs of our body, &c. And fee-tail is either general or special: general is where land is given to a man, and the heirs of his body: fee-tail special is that where a man and his wife are seised of land to them and the heirs of their two bodies. John Cowell

   Now like a lawyer, when he land would let,
   Or sell fee-simples in his master’s name. Hubberd’s Tale.

   Here’s the lord of the soil come to seize me for a stray, for entering his fee-simple without leave. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

   2. Property; peculiar.

   What concern they?
   The general cause; or is it a fee-grief,
   Due to some single breast? William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   3. Reward; gratification; recompense.

   These be the ways by which, without reward,
   Livings in courts be gotten, though full hard;
   For nothing there is done without a fee. Hubberd’s Tale.

   Not helping, death’s my fee;
   But if I help, what do you promise me? William Shakespeare.

   4. Payments occasionally claimed by persons in office.

   Now that God and friends
   Have turn’d my captive state to liberty,
   At our enlargement what are thy due fees? William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.

   5. Reward paid to physicians or lawyers.

   He does not reject the person’s pretensions, who does not know how to explain them; or refuse doing a good office for a man, because he cannot pay the fee of it. Joseph Addison, Spectat.

   6. Portion; pittance; share. Obsolete.

   In pruning and trimming all manner of trees,
   Reserve to each cattle their property fees. Thomas Tusser, Husbandry.

2. To Feeverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To reward; to pay.

   No man fees the sun, no man purchases the light, nor errs if he walks by it. Robert South, Sermons.

   Watch the disease in time; for when within
   The dropsy rages and extends the skin,
   In vain for hellebore the patient cries,
   And fees the doctor; but too late is wise. John Dryden, Pers.

   2. To bribe.

   I have long loved her, and ingrossed opportunities to meet her; feed every slight occasion, that could but niggardly give me sight of her. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

   3. To keep in hire.

   There’s not a thane of them but in his house
   I have a servant fee’d. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fee

   A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for rights or services. Fees usually allow for overhead, wages, costs, and markup. Traditionally, professionals in the United Kingdom (and previously the Republic of Ireland) receive a fee in contradistinction to a payment, salary, or wage, and often use guineas rather than pounds as units of account. Under the feudal system, a Knight's fee was what was given to a knight for his service, usually the usage of land. A contingent fee is an attorney's fee which is reduced or not charged at all if the court case is lost by the attorney. A service fee, service charge, or surcharge is a fee added to a customer's bill. The purpose of a service charge often depends on the nature of the product and corresponding service provided. Examples of why this fee is charged are: travel time expenses, truck rental fees, liability and workers' compensation insurance fees, and planning fees. UPS and FedEx have recently begun surcharges for fuel. Restaurants and banquet halls charging service charges in lieu of tips must distribute them to their wait staff in some US states (e.g., Massachusetts, New York, Montana), but in the state of Kentucky may keep them. A fee may be a flat fee or a variable one, or part of a two-part tariff. A membership fee is charged as part of a subscription business model.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fee

   A fee is a payment made to a professional or an organization in exchange for advice, services, or permission to perform certain actions. It is typically a fixed amount determined by the provider or governing rules, and can be one-time or recurring, depending on the agreement between the parties involved.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Feenoun

   property; possession; tenure

2. Feenoun

   reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc

3. Feenoun

   a right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief

4. Feenoun

   an estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner

5. Feenoun

   an estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure

6. Feeverb

   to reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe

7. Etymology: [OE. fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property, money, fief, AS. feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of property, money, arising from cattle being used in early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property chiefly consisting of cattle; akin to OS. fehu cattle, property, D. vee cattle, OHG. fihu, fehu, G. vieh, Icel. f cattle, property, money, Goth. fahu, L. pecus cattle, pecunia property, money, Skr. pau cattle, perh. orig., a fastened or tethered animal, from a root signifying to bind, and perh. akin to E. fang, fair, a.; cf. OF. fie, flu, feu, fleu, fief, F. fief, from German, of the same origin. the sense fief is due to the French. 249. Cf. Feud, Fief, Fellow, Pecuniary.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fee

   A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for services. Fees usually allow for overhead, wages, costs, and markup. Traditionally, professionals in Great Britain received a fee in contradistinction to a payment, salary, or wage, and would often use guineas rather than pounds as units of account. Under the feudal system, a Knight's fee was what was given to a knight for his service, usually the usage of land. A contingent fee is an attorney's fee which is reduced or not charged at all if the court case is lost by the attorney. A service fee, service charge, or surcharge is a fee added to a customer's bill. The purpose of a service charge often depends on the nature of the product and corresponding service provided. Examples of why this fee is charged are: travel time expenses, truck rental fees, liability and workers' compensation insurance fees, and planning fees. UPS and FedEx have recently begun surcharges for fuel. Restaurants and banquet halls charging service charges in lieu of tips must distribute them to their wait staff in some US states, but in the State of Kentucky may keep them. A fee may be a flat fee or a variable one, or part of a two-part tariff.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fee

   fē, n. price paid for services, as to a lawyer or physician: recompense, wages: the sum exacted for any special privilege: a grant of land for feudal service: an unconditional inheritance—Fee′-sim′ple, possession: ownership.—v.t. to pay a fee to: to hire:—pr.p. fee′ing; pa.p. feed.—ns. Fee′-grief (Shak.), a private grief; Fee′ing-mar′ket (Scot.), a fair or market at which farm-servants are hired for the year or half-year following; Fee′-tail, an entailed estate, which on failure of heirs reverts to the donor.—Base fee, a qualified fee, a freehold estate of inheritance to which a qualification is annexed; Conditional fee, a fee granted on condition, or limited to particular heirs: the estate of a mortgagee of land, possession of which is conditional on payment; Great fee, the holding of a tenant of the Crown. [A.S. feoh, cattle, property: a special kind of property, property in land; Ger. vieh, Ice. fé; allied to L. pecus, cattle, pecunia, money.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fee

   A cost or price.

   The licence fee was affordable.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 1, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FEE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fee is ranked #5394 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Fee surname appeared 6,453 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Fee.
   
   91.8% or 5,924 total occurrences were White.
   2.3% or 153 total occurrences were Black.
   2.1% or 139 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.6% or 107 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.3% or 88 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.6% or 42 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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1. • Fixed Charge
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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fee' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3458

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fee' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3019

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fee' in Nouns Frequency: #801

How to pronounce fee?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fee in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fee in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of fee in a Sentence

1. Walter Piecyk:

   Presumably the Administrative Fee is another way to help ATT fund its network build and Time Warner acquisition going forward.

2. Bob Broeksmit:

   Requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to charge a 0.5 % fee on refinance mortgages they purchase will raise interest rates on families trying to make ends meet in these challenging times.

3. Tim Pagett:

   The incumbents will have to respond to it (aggressive fee pricing), but virtual banks still have to make money, while they don't have to carry the cost of physical branch networks, they do actually have to carry cost and they do have shareholders who have certain return expectations.

4. Hillary Clinton:

   Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, first of all, under Dodd-Frank, that is what will happen because we now have stress tests and I'm going to impose a risk fee on the big bank if they engage in risky behavior but they have to know, their shareholders have to know that yes, they will fail and if they're too big to fail. Then under my plan and others that have been proposed, they may have to be broken up.

5. Ted Rossman:

   These are often travel cards with premium perks the annual fee might be well worth it if you're going to make good use of the airport lounge, the free checked bags or other perks, but not if you rarely travel.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fee
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fee
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=fee
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fee
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=fee
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=fee
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html