fee

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

honoraires

prix

taxe

frais

coût

redevance

droit

cachet

commission

paiement

payement

agio

cotisation

payant

charge

matériau

appointements

déguster

tarif

pourboire

péage

valut

coutent

cout

couta

coutez

coutons

coutâmes

coutèrent

coutée

coutées

coutés

paie

payons

rémunération

salaire

compensation

contrepartie

dédommagement

indemnisation

indemnité compensatrice

récompense

réparation des dommages

frais administratifs

frais de scolarité

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/fiː/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”).

Phrases

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

Elle a assisté aux frais locaux payant l'école de Saint Columba.