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fee
CIDE DICTIONARY
fee, n. [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. faíhu, L. pecus cattle, pecunia property, money, Skr. pa 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. Feud, Fief, Fellow, Pecuniary.].
- property; possession; tenure. Spenser. [1913 Webster]"Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee." [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]"To plead for love deserves more fee than hate." [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner. [1913 Webster]" All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee tail, which is limited to particular heirs." Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure. [1913 Webster]"Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter."
fee, v. t.
To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. [1913 Webster]
"The patient . . . fees the doctor." [1913 Webster]
"There's not a one of them but in his house
I keep a servant feed." [1913 Webster]
I keep a servant feed." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fee, n. & v.
--n.
1 a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services.
2 money paid as part of a special transaction, for a privilege, admission to a society, etc. (enrolment fee).
3 (in pl.) money regularly paid (esp. to a school) for continuing services.
4 Law an inherited estate, unlimited (fee simple) or limited (fee tail) as to the category of heir.
5 hist. a fief; a feudal benefice.
--v.tr. (fee'd or feed)
1 pay a fee to.
2 engage for a fee.
--n.
1 a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services.
2 money paid as part of a special transaction, for a privilege, admission to a society, etc. (enrolment fee).
3 (in pl.) money regularly paid (esp. to a school) for continuing services.
4 Law an inherited estate, unlimited (fee simple) or limited (fee tail) as to the category of heir.
5 hist. a fief; a feudal benefice.
--v.tr. (fee'd or feed)
1 pay a fee to.
2 engage for a fee.
Etymology
ME f. AF, = OF feu, fieu, etc. f. med.L feodum, feudum, perh. f. Frank.: cf. FEUD(2), FIEF
THESAURUS
fee
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, wharfageROGET THESAURUS
fee
Possession
N possession, seizin, seisin, ownership, occupancy, hold, holding, tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency, villenage, villeinage, socage, chivalry, knight service, exclusive possession, impropriation, monopoly, retention, prepossession, preoccupancy, nine points of the law, corner, usucaption, future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee, seigniority, primogeniture, ultimogeniture, futures contract, warrant, put, call, option, right of first refusal, bird in hand, uti possidetis, chose in possession, possessing, worth, possessed of, seized of, master of, in possession of, usucapient, endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught with, laden with, charged with, possessed, on hand, by one, in hand, in store, in stock, in one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession, at one's command, at one's disposal, one's own, unsold, unshared, entbehre gern was du nicht hast, meum et tuum, tuum est.Giving
N giving, bestowal, bestowment, donation, presentation, presentment, accordance, concession, delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment, investment, investiture, award, almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity, gift, donation, present, cadeau, fairing, free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation, lagniappe, pilon, grace, act of grace, bonus, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention, bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage, voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance, amortization, alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish, fee, consideration, bribe, bait, ground bait, peace offering, handsel, boodle, graft, grease, blat, giver, grantor, donor, feoffer, settlor, giving, given, allowed, allowable, concessional, communicable, charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary, tributary, gratis, donative, auctor pretiosa facit, ex dono, res est ingeniosa dare.Expenditure
N expenditure, money going out, out goings, out lay, expenses, disbursement, prime cost, circulation, run upon a bank, payment, pay, bribe, fee, footing, garnish, subsidy, tribute, contingent, quota, donation, pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment, investment, purchase, expending, expended, sumptuary, vectigalia nervos esse reipublicae.VB expend, spend, run through, get through, pay, disburse, ante, ante up, pony up, open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings, lay out, shell out, fork out, fork over, bleed, make up a sum, invest, sink money, run up debts, run up bills (debt), fee, pay one's way, subscribe, subsidize.
Reward
N reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon, reguerdon, price, indemnity, indemnification, quittance, compensation, reparation, redress, satisfaction, reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop, atonement, retribution, consideration, return, quid pro quo, salvage, perquisite, vail, douceur, bribe, hush money, smart money, blackmail, extortion, carcelage, solatium, allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation, pay, payment, emolument, tribute, batta, shot, scot, bonus, premium, tip, fee, honorarium, hire, dasturi, dustoori, mileage, crown, remunerative, remuneratory, munerary, compensatory, retributive, reparatory, rewarding, satisfactory, fideli certa merces, honor virtutis praemium, tibi seris tibi metis.VB reward, recompense, repay, requite, remunerate, munerate, compensate, fee, pay one's footing, make amends, indemnify, atone, satisfy, acknowledge, get for one's pains, reap the fruits of, tip.
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