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fee noun (fees) 1 a charge made for professional services, eg by a doctor or lawyer. 2 a charge for eg membership of a society, sitting an examination, entrance to a museum, etc. 3 (usually fees) a payment for school or college education, or for a course of instruction. 4 a payment made to a football club for the transfer of one of its players. 5 law an estate in the form of land that is inheritable with either restricted rights (fee tail) or unrestricted rights (fee simple). verb (fees, feed, feeing) to pay a fee to someone.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c: partly from Anglo-Saxon feoh cattle or property; partly from French fie fee, which is probably from the same Germanic origin.
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