fee

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. An amount charged for a privilege.
2. An amount charged for professional services.
3. An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.
4. 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).
5. (historical) A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service.
6. (historical) Synonym of fief: the land so held.
7. (historical) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service.
8. (figuratively, obsolete) Synonym of possession.
9. (obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
10. (obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.

Verb

To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

Sinonieme

charge

payment

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tax

wage

price

remuneration

salary

due

cost

fare

toll

wages

compensation

reward

rates

honorarium

commission

expenses

premium

hire

pay

💸

emolument

duty

rent

levy

expenditure

tip

consideration

royalties

tariff

rate

expense

excise

bung

consumption

employ

brokerage

subscription charge

stipend

fine

recompense

rental

disbursement

membership fee

expenditures

excise duty

equalization

contribution

entrance fee

indemnity

Vertalings

Gebühr

honoraires

honorario

αμοιβή

Honorar

onorario

paga

💸

Gage

tassa

honorarium

prix

taxa

Lohn

Preis

taxe

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fiː/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: fee

Geërf van Old English: feoh

Verwante met Old High German: fihu

Verwante met Skots: fe

Verwante met Fries: fee

Verwante met Nederlands: vee

Verwante met Nederduits: Veeh

Verwante met Duits: Vieh

Verwante met Deens: fæ

Verwante met Sweeds: fä

Verwante met Noors: fe

Verwante met Yslands: fé

Verwante met Latyn: pecū

Verwante met Sanskrit: पशु

In summary

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”).
Cognate with Old High German fihu (“cattle, neat”), Scots fe, fie (“cattle, sheep, livestock, deer, goods, property, wealth, money, wages”), West Frisian fee (“livestock”), Dutch vee (“cattle, livestock”), Low German Veeh (“cattle, livestock, property”), Veh, German Vieh (“cattle, livestock”), Danish fæ (“cattle, beast, dolt”), Swedish fä (“beast, cattle, dolt”), Norwegian fe (“cattle”), Icelandic fé (“livestock, assets, money”), Latin pecū (“cattle”), Sanskrit पशु (paśu, “cattle”).

Sinne

She attended the local fee paying Saint Columba's School .