fee
- noun
- /fi/
- I know this may be a bad time right now, but you owe me $32,000 in legal fees.
- pay fees
- charge fees
- tuition fees
Like like take a flat fee from a wealthy country.
- Like like take a flat fee from a wealthy country.
- Give people the money they need for school fees and medication.
- And we're also going to pay you a monthly fee in this hand.
- And National Trust have waived their fees for all of their places.
- They put, they hit you with a higher fee and you're stuck.
- So that's where my fee came from.
- They basically are paid a fee to grow the the grow the pig.
- Now that is everything, tuition, fees, room and board, all of it.
- I'm sick of paying entry fees to see animals not do shit.
- And if we have to sell our blood to pay your school fees, we will.
- We could have gotten our, like, checking fee, like waived.
Examples
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Some open-access publishers ask for or require such fees as a means to maintain free content.
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We'll even pay the application fee.
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Because the fact is, you know, this is a fee paying environment.
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And we're also going to pay you a monthly fee in this hand.
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Give people the money they need for school fees and medication.
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No hidden fees, no access fees, and no membership fees.
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So that's where my fee came from.
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Before you can take the course, you need to pay the tuition fee.
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He was surprised by the additional fee for the processing of his application.
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The restaurant charges a small service fee for large parties.
Synonyms
The amount of money needed to buy or do something
An amount of money paid for a service
A small extra payment you give to use a service
An extra charge added to a bill to pay for staff help
An extra amount added to a bill to pay for the staff who served you
Idioms
Compounds
- Formal
A payment to a government or other official group for permission to do an activity
A sum of money you pay when you ask to be chosen for something like a job or school
- Formal
Full ownership of land without time limit that you can sell or leave to anyone
- Formal
Full ownership of a house or land that you can sell and leave to someone
- Formal
A one-time payment that a local government asks to handle a request to change how land can be used
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fee comes from the old English word feoh meaning 'cattle' or 'property', because animals were once a common form of wealth and payment. So fee now means the money you give for a service.