Fee
[fiː] or [fi]
Definition
(noun.) an interest in land capable of being inherited.
(noun.) a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
Edited by Jimmy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) property; possession; tenure.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
(n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
(v. t.) To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Charge (for professional service), compensation, pay.[2]. Feud, fief.
v. a. Pay, reward, recompense, give a fee to.
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- I shall then have done what I undertook to do--and I'll take my fee. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The fee or honorary, which the scholar pays to the master, naturally constitutes a revenue of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Many refused to pay a fee, and voted him _ignorantus, ignoranta, ignorantum! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- My little servant, after helping me to clean my house, was gone, well satisfied with the fee of a penny for her aid. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Steward's fee is limited to three Guineas. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Certainly, certainly, said Marks, with a conciliatory tone; it's only a retaining fee, you see,--he! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I don't care about his Xisuthrus and Fee-fo-fum and the rest; but then he doesn't care about my fishing-tackle. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Porochial officers are not so well paid that they can afford to refuse any little extra fee, when it comes to them in a civil and proper manner. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- My mistress had her cheque-book on the table when we entered the room--no doubt to pay the Sergeant his fee. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She talked about great people as if she had the fee-simple of May Fair, and when the Court went into mourning, she always wore black. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Look here; not an opinion given yet, on any one of these cases; and an expedition fee paid with all of 'em. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The first is, to gain over my adversary's lawyer with a double fee, who will then betray his client by insinuating that he hath justice on his side. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But the sum he exacted as a fee for my apprenticeship displeased my father, and I was taken home again. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The post-boys wondered at the fees he flung amongst them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Now, if I had stayed at Badger's I should have been obliged to spend twelve pounds at a blow for some heart-breaking lecture-fees. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Nor would you say that medicine is the art of receiving pay because a man takes fees when he is engaged in healing? Plato. The Republic.
- The fees annually paid to lawyers and attorneys, amount, in every court, to a much greater sum than the salaries of the judges. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He had always doubled, and sometimes quadrupled, his fees. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- How extravagant soever the fees of counsellors at law may sometimes appear, their real retribution is never equal to this. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You haven't made me out that little list of the fees that I'm in your debt, have you? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up with these requirements. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The fees of court seem originally to have been the principal support of the different courts of justice in England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They stopped in a side room while Perker paid the court fees; and here, Mr. Pickwick was joined by his friends. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Of course I ordered an investigation, and found that the patent solicitor had drawn from the company the fees for filing all these applications, but had never filed them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In Athens fees were paid to citizens even for attending the general assembly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Instead of being paid a salary or fees, he is allowed to make a profit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Both get very comfortable fees, and altogether they make a mighty snug little party. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The reward of the schoolmaster, in most cases, depends principally, in some cases almost entirely, upon the fees or honoraries of his scholars. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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