Fee (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.
  2. a sum paid or charged for a privilege: an admission fee.
  3. a charge allowed by law for the service of a public officer.
  4. Law.
    • an estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple ) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail ).
    • an inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
    • a territory held in fee.
  5. a gratuity; tip.
verb (used with object), feed, fee·ing.
  1. to give a fee to.
  2. to hire; employ.
noun
  1. a payment asked by professional people or public servants for their services
  2. a charge made for a privilege
  3. property law
    • an interest in land capable of being inherited
    • the land held in fee
  4. (in feudal Europe) the land granted by a lord to his vassal
  5. an obsolete word for a gratuity
  6. in fee
    • (of land) in absolute ownership
    • in complete subjection
verb fees, feeing or feed
  1. to give a fee to
  2. to hire for a fee
Fee (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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