fee

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 13.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An amount charged in return for permission to do something:

   television license fee

2. noun An amount charged ancillary to the (occasionally null) base cost of a product or service; an additional charge, nominally for some additional privilege, ability or permission.

   booking fee, late fee

3. noun An amount charged for something: the base cost of purchasing some thing, service, etc.

   admission fee, membership fee, drivers' license fee

4. noun A fixed rate or price charged for (chiefly white-collar) professional services.

   lawyers' fees, tuition fee, bank fees, legal fees, consulting fee

5. noun 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).
6. noun A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service.
7. noun Synonym of fief: the land so held.
8. noun An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service.

Similar words

contract sign up sign sign on fief rates taxation levy tax committee

Often followed by

of for is simple to and or in was

Word family

feed feeing fees