FEE (feed)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: feed   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fee mean? 

• FEE (noun)
  The noun FEE has 2 senses:

1. a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services

2. an interest in land capable of being inherited

  Familiarity information: FEE used as a noun is rare.

• FEE (verb)
  The verb FEE has 1 sense:

1. give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on

  Familiarity information: FEE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("fee" is a kind of...):

fixed charge; fixed cost; fixed costs (a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fee"):

quayage; wharfage (a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay)

tuition; tuition fee (a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education))

truckage (a fee charged for transporting goods by truckage)

toll (a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance))

seigniorage (charged by a government for coining bullion)

consideration; retainer (a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone)

poundage (a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals)

pipage (a fee charged for the use of pipes)

origination fee (a fee charged to a borrower (especially for a mortgage loan) to cover the costs of initiating the loan)

moorage (a fee for mooring)

mintage (fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin)

lockage (a fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway)

lighterage (the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters)

license fee; license tax; licensing fee (a fee paid to the government for the privilege of being licensed to do something (as selling liquor or practicing medicine))

legal fee (a fee paid for legal service)

finder's fee (a fee that is paid to someone who finds a source of financial backing or to someone who brings people together for business purposes)

admission; admission charge; admission fee; admission price; entrance fee; entrance money; price of admission (the fee charged for admission)

drop-off charge (a fee added for returning a rented car to a location different from the one where it was rented)

dockage; docking fee (a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock)

contingency fee (a fee that is payable only if the outcome is successful (as for an attorney's services))

commission (a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary))

cellarage (a charge for storing goods in a cellar)

anchorage (a fee for anchoring)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An interest in land capable of being inherited

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("fee" is a kind of...):

interest; stake ((law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fee"):

fee tail (a fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away)

fee simple (a fee without limitation to any class of heirs; they can sell it or give it away)

• FEE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fee    ... he / she / it fees   
Past simple: fee'd    / feed   
Past participle: fee'd    / feed   
-ing form: feeing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

bung; fee; tip

Context example:

fee the steward

Hypernyms (to "fee" is one way to...):

gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something

 Context examples 

Talks about your base salary or fee should go great on March 11, when Jupiter and the Sun, now shining in your earned income sector (second house) will be supportive of each other.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The bacteria are found mainly in rats and in the fleas that feed on them.

(Plague, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Neuropathic Pain Scale (NPS) I fee a single type of pain only sometimes.

(NPS - Describe the Occasional Pain, NCI Thesaurus)

Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer but the hangman who would gain his fee?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

According to the hypothesis of the report, the microbe population grew because there was suddenly a large quantity of nitrates in the water for them to feed on.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)

How are we to feed our poor children, when we no longer have anything even for ourselves?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"However, some zooplankton also feed on those sinking particles, thus decreasing the efficiency of that pump."

(Research provides new view of the critical role of plankton in marine carbon storage, National Science Foundation)

The result is a nutritionally rich food that could benefit millions worldwide, while also reducing the cost of animal feed.

(US Researchers Genetically Modify Corn to Boost Nutritional Value, VOA News)

Ethinyl estradiol and norgestimate act by negative feed back mechanism at pituitary gland suppressing the release of gonadotropin hormones follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH).

(Ethinyl Estradiol/Norgestimate, NCI Thesaurus)