'Fee' definitions:
Definition of 'fee'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Fee'
From: GCIDE
- Fee \Fee\ (f[=e]), n. [OE. fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property, money, fief, AS. feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of "property, money," arising from cattle being used in early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property chiefly consisting of cattle; akin to OS. fehu cattle, property, D. vee cattle, OHG. fihu, fehu, G. vieh, Icel. f[=e] cattle, property, money, Goth. fa['i]hu, L. pecus cattle, pecunia property, money, Skr. pa[,c]u cattle, perh. orig., "a fastened or tethered animal," from a root signifying to bind, and perh. akin to E. fang, fair, a.; cf. OF. fie, flu, feu, fleu, fief, F. fief, from German, of the same origin. the sense fief is due to the French. [root]249. Cf. Feud, Fief, Fellow, Pecuniary.]
- 1. property; possession; tenure. "Laden with rich fee." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc. [1913 Webster]
- To plead for love deserves more fee than hate. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Feud. Law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Eng. Law) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner. [1913 Webster]
- Note: All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee tail, which is limited to particular heirs. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Amer. Law) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure. [1913 Webster]
- Fee estate (Eng. Law), land or tenements held in fee in consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered to the lord.
- Fee farm (Law), land held of another in fee, in consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty, or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent. --Blackstone.
- Fee farm rent (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple.
- Fee fund (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid.
- Fee simple (Law), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits. [1913 Webster]
- Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. --Shak.
- Fee tail (Law), an estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs. --Burill. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fee'
From: GCIDE
- Fee \Fee\ (f[=e]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feed (f[=e]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Feeing.] To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. [1913 Webster]
- The patient . . . fees the doctor. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fee'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- admission,
- admission fee,
- allowance,
- anchorage,
- assessment,
- bill,
- blackmail,
- blood money,
- bonus,
- bounty,
- bribe,
- brokerage,
- carfare,
- cellarage,
- charge,
- charges,
- compensate,
- consideration,
- copyhold,
- cost,
- cover charge,
- demand,
- dockage,
- donative,
- double time,
- dues,
- emolument,
- entrance fee,
- equitable estate,
- estate at sufferance,
- estate for life,
- estate for years,
- estate in expectancy,
- estate in fee,
- estate in possession,
- estate tail,
- exaction,
- exactment,
- expense,
- fare,
- fee simple,
- fee tail,
- feod,
- feodum,
- feud,
- feudal estate,
- fief,
- footing,
- gratuity,
- gravy,
- grease,
- guerdon,
- hire,
- honorarium,
- hush money,
- incentive pay,
- indemnify,
- inducement,
- initiation fee,
- lagniappe,
- largess,
- lease,
- leasehold,
- legal estate,
- liberality,
- license fee,
- mileage,
- palm oil,
- paramount estate,
- particular estate,
- pay,
- pay by installments,
- pay on,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- pilotage,
- portage,
- pourboire,
- premium,
- prepay,
- price,
- reckoning,
- recompense,
- remainder,
- remit,
- remunerate,
- render,
- retainer,
- retaining fee,
- reversion,
- reward,
- salary,
- salvage,
- salve,
- satisfy,
- scot,
- scot and lot,
- shot,
- something extra,
- sportula,
- stipend,
- storage,
- sweetener,
- tender,
- tip,
- toll,
- towage,
- tribute,
- Trinkgeld,
- vested estate,
- wharfage
Words containing 'Fee'
- Feeing,
- Base fee,
- Fee estate,
- Fee farm,
- Fee fund,
- Fee simple,
- Fee tail,
- Knight's fee,
- Qualified fee,
- Surplice fees,
- Term fee,
- admission fee,
- contingency fee,
- docking fee,
- entrance fee,
- fee position,
- fee splitting,
- finder's fee,
- legal fee,
- license fee,
- licensing fee,
- origination fee,
- retaining fee,
- service fee,
- tipping fee,
- tuition fee,
- Fee farm rent,
- Frank-fee,
- Tenure by fee alms,
- fee-tail,
- Fee-faw-fum