fee
An amount charged in return for permission to do something
Noun 4 meanings
An amount charged in return for permission to do something
“television license fee”
An amount charged in return for permission to do something:
“booking fee, late fee”
A fixed rate or price charged for (chiefly white-collar) professional services.
“lawyers' fees, tuition fee, bank fees, legal fees, consulting fee”
An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail).
Verb 1 meaning
To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
Etymology
From Middle English fee, fe, feh, feoh, from Old English feoh (“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”) with contamination from Old French fieu, fief (from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (see feud), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”); whence fief), both from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”), from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“livestock”).
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FEE at a glance
FEE has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (F 4 + E 1 + E 1) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,884 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with fee
All rhymes- COFFEE14
- TOFFEE12
- BANOFFEE16
- ETOUFFEE14
- FEOFFEE16
- RATAFEE10
- PENNYFEE16
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