Antonyms for fee

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fee

Phonetic Transcription : fi

Definition of fee

Origin : late 13c., from Old French fieu, fief "fief, possession, holding, domain; feudal duties, payment," from Medieval Latin feodum "land or other property whose use is granted in return for service," widely said to be from Frankish *fehu-od "payment-estate," or a similar Germanic compound, in which the first element is cognate with Old English feoh "money, movable property, cattle" (also German Vieh "cattle," Gothic faihu "money, fortune"), from PIE *peku- "cattle" (cf. Sanskrit pasu, Lithuanian pekus "cattle;" Latin pecu "cattle," pecunia "money, property"); second element similar to Old English ead "wealth."
OED rejects this, and suggests a simple adaptation of Germanic fehu, leaving the Medieval Latin -d- unexplained. Sense of "payment for services" first recorded late 14c. Fee-simple is "absolute ownership," as opposed to fee-tail "entailed ownership," inheritance limited to some particular class of heirs (second element from Old French taillir "to cut, to limit").

noun charge for service or privilege

Example sentences :

I will enclose the second payment of her fee in a letter which I am writing to her.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

I could introduce you to a duchess, but then the fee is high.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The doctor's fee is four and sixpence, and you need not consult him often.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

Any boy in the school may enter, and there will be no fee collected.
Extract from : « Frank Roscoe's Secret » by Allen Chapman

But, as a lawyer—minus the fee—I'll tell you what you should do.
Extract from : « In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories » by Robert Barr

Since he was of the blood royal the emperor had given him a kingdom in fee.
Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various

Did you ever know a lawyer to be concerned with religion, unless he got a fee by it?
Extract from : « The Fall of British Tyranny » by John Leacock

Saying which, he folded his sand-book of magic, pocketed his fee, and walked away.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

At the end of the fourth week, after Glory had paid her fee to the agent, she called on him again.
Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine

In obedience to this passionate desire it was, that he paid his fee to Gorgias of Leontini .
Extract from : « Anabasis » by Xenophon

Synonyms for fee

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