Fee
English
Noun
Fee (plural Fees)- A monetary payment charged for professional services.
- (law) 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).
- (law) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
Adjectives for Fee
ceremonious; unpredictable; hateful; wandering; prodigious; undeserved.
Verbs for Fee
accept—; augment—; beg for—; bill—; calculate—; command—; demand—; entitle to ——; execute—; expect—; fatten on—; fix—; grant—; hold in—; incur—; limit—; merit —; perform for—; procure—; promise—; refuse—; require—; rob of—.
Synonyms for Fee
compensation, payment, wage, emolument, pay, bill, account, charge, cost, remuneration.
Thesaurus
Trinkgeld, account, admission, admission fee, allowance, anchorage, assessment, bill, blackmail, blood money, bonus, bounty, bribe, brokerage, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, compensate, consideration, copyhold, cost, cover charge, demand, dockage, donative, double time, dues, emolument, entrance fee, equitable estate, estate at sufferance, estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy, estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, exaction, exactment, expense, fare, fee simple, fee tail, feod, feodum, feud, feudal estate, fief, footing, gratuity, gravy, grease, guerdon, hire, honorarium, hush money, incentive pay, indemnify, inducement, initiation fee, lagniappe, largess, lease, leasehold, legal estate, liberality, license fee, mileage, palm oil, paramount estate, particular estate, pay, pay by installments, pay on, perks, perquisite, pilotage, portage, pourboire, premium, prepay, price, reckoning, recompense, remainder, remit, remunerate, render, retainer, retaining fee, reversion, reward, salary, salvage, salve, satisfy, scot, scot and lot, shot, something extra, sportula, stipend, storage, sweetener, tender, tip, toll, towage, tribute, vested estate, wharfage
Etymology
Old English feoh (“cattle, property, money”)
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Afrikaans
Noun
Fee
Dutch
Noun
Fee f. (plural feeën, diminutive feetje, diminutive plural feetjes)
Manx
Noun
Fee
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /feː/
Etymology 1
Germanic; cognate with Dutch vee, German Fee and Icelandic fé
Noun
Fee n.
Etymology 2
From French fée
Noun
Fee c. (pl. feeën)
