fee

/fi/

/fi/

Other forms: fees; feeing

A fee is the cost of something, or the amount of money charged. You might need to pay a fee when you visit your favorite state park.

Clubs, national parks, and gyms all charge a fee to belong or to enter. There is also the fee that a professional charges for services, like the legal fee you pay when you hire an attorney or the fee you pay your dentist to clean your teeth. Fee has an Old French origin in the word fieu, "possession, holding, domain, or payment," from the Medieval Latin feodum, "land whose use is granted in return for service."

Definitions of fee

1. noun

   a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
   types:

   anchorage

   a fee for anchoring

   cellarage

   a charge for storing goods in a cellar

   commission

   a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary)

   contingency fee

   a fee that is payable only if the outcome is successful (as for an attorney's services)

   dockage, docking fee

   a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock

   drop-off charge

   a fee added for returning a rented car to a location different from the one where it was rented

   admission, admission charge, admission fee, admission price, entrance fee, entrance money, price of admission

   the fee charged for admission

   finder's fee

   a fee that is paid to someone who finds a source of financial backing or to someone who brings people together for business purposes

   legal fee

   a fee paid for legal service

   license fee, license tax, licensing fee

   a fee paid to the government for the privilege of being licensed to do something (as selling liquor or practicing medicine)

   lighterage

   the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters

   lockage

   a fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway

   mintage

   fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin

   moorage

   a fee for mooring

   origination fee

   a fee charged to a borrower (especially for a mortgage loan) to cover the costs of initiating the loan

   pipage

   a fee charged for the use of pipes

   poundage

   a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals

   consideration, retainer

   a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone

   seigniorage

   charged by a government for coining bullion

   toll

   a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)

   truckage

   a fee charged for transporting goods by truckage

   tuition, tuition fee

   a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education)

   quayage, wharfage

   a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay

   refresher

   a fee (in addition to that marked on the brief) paid to counsel in a case that lasts more than one day

   quid, quid pro quo

   something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises

   type of:

   fixed charge, fixed cost, fixed costs

   a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.)
2. verb

   give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
   “fee the steward”

   synonyms: bung, tip

   type of:

   gift, give, present

   give as a present; make a gift of
3. noun

   an interest in land capable of being inherited
   types:

   fee simple

   a fee without limitation to any class of heirs; they can sell it or give it away

   fee tail

   a fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away

   type of:

   interest, stake

   (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something