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  1. noun A fixed sum charged, as by an institution or by law, for a privilege: a license fee; tuition fees.
  2. noun A charge for professional services: a surgeon's fee.
  3. noun A tip; a gratuity.
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  • The gender rights expert believes mullahs often conduct weddings without asking too many questions because the fee is an important source of income for them. —  Institute for War & Peace Reporting:
  • Uses of the fee were also expanded to include funding for BadgerNet and Badger Link, statewide telecommunications networks used by public libraries, schools and residents across Wisconsin.
  • Methinks that the fee is a little on the higher side - especially if you compare it with older
  • According to a statement released on Thursday, the fee is the result of a new ordinance enacted by the Porter County Commissioners in March. —  Chesterton Tribune
  • Last year, every waitlisted candidate who came to pay the fee was a happy soul later.
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  1. Middle English fe, from Old English feoh, cattle, goods, money, and from Anglo-Norman fee, fief (from Old French fie, fief, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English feoh); see peku- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English fee, fe, earlier feh, feoh, cattle, property, money, money paid, tribute, a fee, from Anglo-Saxon feoh (contr. genitive feós, dative feó), neuter, cattle, property, money, = Old Saxon fehu = OFries. fia = Dutch vee = Low German fee = Old High German fihu, fehu, Middle High German vihe, German vieh, cattle, = Icelandic fē, cattle, property, money, = Swedish fä = Danish fæ, cattle, beast, = Goth, faihu, neuter, cattle, property, = Latin pecus (pecu-), neuter, cattle, money, cf. pecus (pecor-), neuter, cattle, especially small cattle, a flock, pecus (pecud-), feminine, a single head of cattle, especially of small cattle, a sheep, etc. (later peculium, property in cattle, private property, what is one's own, pecunia, property. money: see peculiar, peculate, pecuniary, etc.), = Sanskrit paçu, cattle (a single head or a herd), a domestic animal, from √ *paç, fasten, bind, = Teutonic √ *fah, *fanh, in fang, etc.: see fang, fay, fair.
  2. from fee, n.
  3. from Middle English fe, plural fees, feez, an estate held in trust or under conditions, a feud, assimilated in form to fe, fee, property, etc. (with which it is ult. identical), from Old French fied, fie, feu, variant of fieu, later fief, later English fief (which does not seem to occur in Middle English: see feoff), from Middle Latin feudum, property held in fee: see fief, feoff, feud.
 

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