fee

CEFRB1

/fiː/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An amount of money paid for a service.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.

Examples

  • Each member has to pay a membership fee.

  • With regard to the membership fee, you must ask the treasurer of the club.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An amount charged for a privilege.

  2. An amount charged for professional services.

  3. 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).

More examples

In context

  • You must pay a small registration fee to join the club.

  • admission fee

  • activation fee

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäi (“cattle, livestock”), West Frisian fee (“livestock”), Cimbrian biighe, viighe (“animal, beast”), Dutch vee (“cattle, livestock”), German Viech (“animal, beast”), Vieh (“livestock”), German Low German Veeh (“cattle, livestock, property”), Luxembourgish Véi...