How do you use the word "fee" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "fee" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "fee": Each member has to pay a membership fee. With regard to the membership fee, you must ask the treasurer of the club.

Fee Meaning

/fiː/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn amount charged for a privilege.

nounAn amount charged for professional services.

Sentence Examples

Each member has to pay a membership fee.

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

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

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

tip

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The late payment ____ for overdue library books is fifty cents per day.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

You have to pay a small ____ if you want to use the swimming pool at the sports center.

Word Origin & History

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 (“cattle”), Vilamovian fi, fī, fii, fiih (“cattle, livestock”), Yiddish פֿי (fi), פֿיך (fikh, “cattle, livestock”), Danish and Faroese fæ (“cattle, livestock”), Icelandic fé (“assets, livestock, money”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fe (“cattle, livestock”), Swedish fä (“beast, cattle, dolt”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉 (faihō), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu, “possessions, property; riches, wealth; money”); also Latin pecū (“cattle”), Old Prussian pecku (“cattle”), Armenian ասր (asr, “fleece, wool”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬎 (pasu, “livestock”), Bactrian ποσο (poso, “sheep”), Central Kurdish پەز (pez, “sheep”), Northern Kurdish pez (“sheep”), Ossetian фыс (fys, “sheep”), Talysh pəs, пәс (“sheep”), Sanskrit पशु (paśu, “cattle”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting." — 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

"Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;" — 1807, William Wordsworth, “On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic”, in Poems in Two Volumes:

"What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee." — 1844, James Russell Lowell, The Heritage:

"Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time." — 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 121:

"For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee." — 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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