Definitions for the word "fee" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
property; possession; tenure.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 payment made for professional advice or services etc. 2 a charge for a privilege, examination, admission to a society, etc. (enrolment fee). B money paid for the transfer to another employer of a footballer etc. 3 (in pl.) Regular payments (esp. To a school). 4 law inherited estate, unlimited (fee simple) or limited (fee tail) as to category of heir. [medieval latin feudum]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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