What does fee mean?
Definitions for fee
fifee
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Princeton's WordNet
feenoun
a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
feeverb
an interest in land capable of being inherited
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"
Wiktionary
feenoun
Cattle; livestock, especially considered as the basis of wealth.
feenoun
Property; owndom; estate.
feenoun
Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
feenoun
A monetary payment charged for professional services.
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).
feenoun
An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
feeverb
To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
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 Dictionary
FEEnoun
Etymology: feoh, Saxon; fee, Danish, cattle; feudum, low Latin; feu, Scottish.
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.
What concern they?
The general cause; or is it a fee-grief,
Due to some single breast? William Shakespeare, Macbeth.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.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.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.
In pruning and trimming all manner of trees,
Reserve to each cattle their property fees. Thomas Tusser, Husbandry.To Feeverb
Etymology: from the noun.
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.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.
There’s not a thane of them but in his house
I have a servant fee’d. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.
Wikipedia
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.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Feenoun
property; possession; tenure
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
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
Feenoun
an estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner
Feenoun
an estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure
Feeverb
to reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe
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.]
Wikidata
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 Dictionary
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 Contribution
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 Records
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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British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'fee' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3458
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'fee' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3019
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'fee' in Nouns Frequency: #801
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fee in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fee in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of fee in a Sentence
We now have stress tests and I'm going to impose a risk fee on the big banks if they engage in risky behavior.
President Donald Trump said OK. We paid the fee, but President Donald Trump also said,' The only way you can use The Plaza on a soundstage is if I'm in the movie,' so we agreed to put President Donald Trump in the movie, and when we screened it for the first time the oddest thing happened : People cheered when President Donald Trump showed up on-screen. So I said to my editor,' Leave him in the movie. It's a moment for the audience.' But he did bully his way into the movie.
We have to end the flood of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting our elections, corrupting our political system, and drowning out the voices of too many everyday Americans, our democracy should be about expanding the franchise, not charging an entrance fee.
It's nice to be able to commit to be able to try different things without committing to a $ 20( class) fee and a subway ride.
The cost of running the event is actually quite small relative to the amount of money it generates. The thing that puts the cost up is the promoter’s fee that we have to pay.
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- възнаграждение, хонорарBulgarian
- poplatek, honorářCzech
- gebyrDanish
- GebührGerman
- αμοιβήGreek
- honorarioEsperanto
- cuota, honorario, tarifaSpanish
- palkkioFinnish
- ágáva, gjald, avgjaldFaroese
- honorairesFrench
- tuarasdalScottish Gaelic
- վարձArmenian
- tassa, tariffa, quota, retta, onorario, emolumentoItalian
- 料金Japanese
- akiliutKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- 요금Korean
- gebyr, avgiftNorwegian
- honorarium, prijsDutch
- avgiftNorwegian
- taxa, honorárioPortuguese
- сбор, гонорар, взнос, пошлина, платаRussian
- avgiftSwedish
- karo, adaSwahili
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