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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.

feed¹ verb (fed, feeding) verb 1 to give or supply food to (animals, etc). 2 to give something as food (to animals, etc) • fed biscuits to his dog. 3 to administer food (to an infant, young animal) • to feed the baby. 4 in compounds to administer food to someone in a specified way • breast-feed • bottle-feed • force-feed. 5 intrans said of animals: to eat food • Sheep feed all day. 6 to supply a machine, etc with fuel or other material required for continued operation or processing. 7 theat to provide (an actor, especially a comedian) with material or a cue to achieve an effect, often a comic effect. 8 sport to pass the ball to (a team-mate). noun 1 an act or session of feeding. 2 an allowance of food for animals, eg cattle or babies. 3 food for livestock, etc. 4 colloq a meal, especially a hearty one • a good feed. 5 the channel or mechanism by which a machine is supplied with fuel, etc. 6 the material supplied progressively for any operation. 7 the rate of supply of material to a machine; the rate of progress of a tool. 8 theat an actor who feeds or cues another one; a stooge. feedable adj.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon fedan.

feed² past tense, past participle of fee