finder's fee
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈfaɪndərz fi/
:
comisión por intermediación
- Claremont negotiated a finder's fee for $300,000.
- get a finder's fee
- pay a finder's fee
- percent finder's fee
Examples
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What kind of finder's fee were you looking for?
Fiction book (1996) -
The finder's fee is 3%.
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Look, I think a finder's fee would be fair.
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And we will be out a finder's fee.
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Is there gonna be any kind of finder's fee for this?
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But we're gonna get a finder's fee.
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Do you get a finder's fee?
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Existing MTFC parents are paid a "finder's fee" of $100 for referring new families to the program.
Academic text (2000) -
Charles promises to pay you a finder's fee based on a percentage (let's say 1%) of the money he receives if you introduce him to the buyer.
Blog text (26) -
Existing MTFC parents are paid a finder's fee of $100 for referring new families to the program.
Synonyms
755
2.3
An amount of money paid for a service
729
1.0
Money paid for a service or right
106
3.0
Money paid to a person for selling something, often part of the sale
A fee paid to a person or company for selling goods for someone else
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
finder's + fee
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'finder's' signals the person who found or introduced the opportunity and 'fee' means a payment, so the phrase denotes a payment to the finder. This follows a regular possessive + noun composition found across languages, so an average B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Finder's fee comes from the simple image of a person, a finder, who discovers a buyer or a deal and receives a small payment, a fee, for that help. So, a finder's fee today means the money paid to someone who 'finds' or 'introduces' the people needed to make a business deal.