fee /fiː/noun 11verb 1forms 3phrases 2 noun11 •a payment someone must make before they are allowed to do something •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.no hidden fees;   the sticker price is $1 but all the extra fees push the price into triple digits; it costs just 4.99 and there are no fees •An amount charged for something: the base cost of purchasing some thing, service, etc.the fee for entry to the zoo is increasing from 50 to 60 dollars •A fixed rate or price charged for (chiefly white-collar) professional services. •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). •(historical) A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service. •(historical) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service. •(historical) Synonym of fief: the land so held. •(no longer used) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument. •(no longer used) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee. — 1596 •(figurative, no longer used) Synonym of possession.Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. — 1807 verb1 •To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.In vain for Hellebore the patient cries / And fees the doctor; but too late is wise — 1693 formsfeed · feeing · fees Phrases with fee fee simple absolute in possessionThe unqualified and unrestricted ownership of an estate in land; freehold tenure. in feeOf an estate in land, inherited or owned by one who has the absolute right to dispose of the land as they desire, including the right to select an inheritor of the land.
