fee (fiː
)
Definitions
noun
- 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
- See in fee
verb
Word forms: fees, feeing, feed
- rare to give a fee to
- mainly Scottish to hire for a fee
Alternative Forms
ˈfeeless adjectiveWord Origin
C14: from Old French fie, of Germanic origin; see fiefSynonyms
View thesaurus entry=
charge,
pay,
price,
cost,
bill,
account,
payment,
wage,
reward,
hire,
salary,
compensation,
toll,
remuneration,
recompense,
emolument,
honorarium,
meed,
Translations
- British English:
fee
A fee is a sum of money that you pay to be allowed to do something.We paid the small entrance fee and drove inside.fiː NOUN We paid the small entrance fee and drove inside.
- Spanish:
honorarios
npl
- French:
frais
nm_pl
- German:
Gebühr
nf
- Chinese: 费 n
- Arabic: أُجْرَة n
- Portuguese: taxa nf
- Russian: вознаграждение nnt
- Croatian: pristojba nf
- Czech: poplatek nm
- Danish: gebyr nnt
- Dutch: kosten npl
- Finnish: maksu n
- Greek: αμοιβή nf
- Italian: tariffa nf
- Japanese: 料金 n
- Korean: 요금 n
- Norwegian: gebyr nnt
- Polish: opłata nf
- Brazilian Portuguese: taxa nf
- European Spanish:
honorarios
npl
- Swedish: avgift nutr
- Thai: ค่าธรรมเนียม n
- Turkish: ücret n
- Vietnamese: lệ phí n
Usage examples
His percentage was the standard fee from stallholders plus a tenth of the take.
, The Tartan Ringers (1986)Details: To be held at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk on December 4. Entry fee : £18.
Country Life (2004)And rather than offer a smaller fee , they decided not to invite me at all.
Irish Times (2002)The female Dundee fan was not too worried about the possible loss of Claudio Caniggia as long as a suitable transfer fee was arranged.
Glasgow Herald (2001)An oddly uninterested man in an Information Centre (which contains very little information) offers to guard your vehicle for a small fee.
, THE EARTH: An Intimate History (2004)