fee

Meaning

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.

fee

charge

payment

tax

wage

remuneration

price

salary

fare

cost

due

wages

toll

commission

compensation

reward

honorarium

rates

premium

expenses

hire

pay

duty

rent

emolument

levy

rate

expense

expenditure

royalties

tip

tariff

consideration

membership fee

subscription charge

brokerage

consumption

disbursement

rental

recompense

bung

employ

fine

stipend

excise

expenditures

royalty

edge

fold

hem

imposition

obligatory contribution

admission-paid

material

sales commission

service charge

earnings

tollage

tribute

subscription

bribe

entrance fee

lordship

feud

feudatory

award

deposit

fee simple

fee simple absolute

renting

requite

bounty

tuition

tuition fees

outlay

give a feast

dues

customs duty

excise duty

freehold

land tenure

tenure

payoff

presentment

rendering

guerdon

incentive

percentage

contribution

down payment

retainer

value

fees

spend

waste

wasteful

money

legal costs

gross pay

pittance payment

amends

compensation for damage

compensations

equalization

indemnification

indemnity

reimbursement

reparation

repayment

supplanter

fair

bill

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fiː/

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”).