English-Thai Dictionary

fee

N ค่าธรรมเนียม  ค่าตอบแทน  ค่าบริการ  ค่าเล่าเรียน  charge payment ka-tam-niam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FEE

n.[L. pecu, pecus. From the use of cattle in transferring property, or from barter and payments in cattle, the word came to signify money; it signified also goods, substance in general. The word belongs to Class Bg, but the primary sense is not obvious. ] A reward or compensation for services; recompense, either gratuitous, or established by law and claimed of right. It is applied particularly to the reward of professional services; as the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc. Many of these are fixed by law; but gratuities to professional men are also called fees.

 

FEE

n.[In English, is loan. This word, fee, inland, or an estate in trust, originated among the descendants of the northern conquerors of Italy, but it originated in the south of Europe. See Feud. ] Primarily, a loan of land, an estate in trust, granted by a prince or lord, to be held by the grantee on condition of personal service, or other condition; and if the grantee or tenant failed to perform the conditions, the land reverted to the lord or donor, called the landlord, or lend-lord, the lord of the loan. A fee then is any land or tenement held of a superior on certain conditions. It is synonymous with fief and feud. All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. Fees are absolute or limited. An absolute fee or fee-simple is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. Hence in modern times, the term fee or fee simple denotes an estate of inheritance; and in America, where lands are not generally held of a superior, a fee or fee simple is an estate in which the owner has the whole property without any condition annexed to the tenure. A limited fee is an estate limited or clogged with certain conditions; as a qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; and a conditional fee, which is limited to particular heirs.
In the United States, an estate in fee or fee simple is what is called in English law an allodial estate, an estate held by a person in his own right, and descendible to the heirs in general.

 

FEE

v.t. 1. To pay a fee to; to reward. Hence,
2. To engage in one's service by advancing a fee or sum of money to; as, to fee a lawyer.
3. To hire; to bribe.
4. To keep in hire.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FEE

Fee, n. Etym: [OE. fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property, money, fiet, AS. feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of "property, money, " arising from cattle being used in early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property chiefly consisting of cattle; akin to OS. feuh cattle, property, D. vee cattle, OHG. fihu, fehu, G. vieh, Icel. f cattle, property, money, Goth. faíhu, L. pecus cattle, pecunia property. money, Skr. pa cattle, perh. orig. , "a fastened or tethered animal, " from a root signifying to bind, and perh. akin to E. fang, fair, a.; cf. OF. fie, flu, feu, fleu, fief, F. fief, from German, of the same origin. the sense fief is due to the French. Feud, Fief, Fellow, Pecuniary. ]

 

1. property; possession; tenure. "Laden with rich fee. " Spenser. Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. Wordsworth.

 

2. 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. To plead for love deserves more fee than hate. Shak.

 

3. (Feud. Law )

 

Defn: 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.

 

4. (Eng. Law )

 

Defn: An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.

 

Note: All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a qualitified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee tail, which is limited to particular heirs. Blackstone.

 

5. (Amer. Law )

 

Defn: An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure. Fee estate (Eng. Law ), land or tenements held in fee in consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered to the lord. -- Fee farm (Law ), land held of another in fee, in consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty, or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent. Blackstone. -- Fee farm rent (Eng. Law ), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple. -- Fee fund (Scot. Law ), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid. -- Fee simple (Law ), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits. Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. Shak. -- Fee tail (Law ), an estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs. Burill.

 

FEE

Fee, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feed; p. pr. & vb. n. Feeing.]

 

Defn: To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. The patient. .. fees the doctor. Dryden. There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed. Shak.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fee

fee |fē fi | ▶noun 1 a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services. • money paid as part of a special transaction, e.g., for a privilege or for admission to something: the gallery charges an admission fee. • (usu. fees ) money regularly paid (esp. to a school or similar institution ) for continuing services: high tuition fees required by the schools. 2 Law, historical an estate of land, esp. one held on condition of feudal service. ▶verb ( fees, feeing, fee'd or feed ) [ with obj. ] rare make a payment to (someone ) in return for services. PHRASES hold something in fee Law, historical hold an estate in return for feudal service to a superior. ORIGIN Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French feu, fief, from medieval Latin feodum, feudum, ultimately of Germanic origin. Compare with feu and fief .

 

Oxford Dictionary

fee

fee |fiː | ▶noun 1 a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services: they were faced with legal fees of £3000. • money paid as part of a special transaction, for example for a privilege or for admission to something: an annual membership fee. • (usu. fees ) money regularly paid to a school or similar institution for continuing services: tuition fees have now reached $9000 a year. 2 Law, historical an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service. ▶verb ( fees, feeing, fee'd or feed ) [ with obj. ] rare make a payment to (someone ) in return for services. PHRASES hold something in fee Law, historical hold an estate in return for feudal service to a superior. ORIGIN Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French feu, fief, from medieval Latin feodum, feudum, ultimately of Germanic origin. Compare with feu, feud, and fief .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fee

fee noun for the quality of work, I think the fee was reasonable: payment, wage, salary, allowance; price, cost, charge, tariff, rate, amount, sum, figure; (fees ) remuneration, dues, earnings, pay; formal emolument.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fee

fee noun he delivered the parcels for a very modest fee: payment, emolument, wage, salary, allowance, stipend, handout; price, cost, charge, tariff, toll, rate, amount, sum, figure, percentage, commission, consideration, honorarium; (fees ) remuneration, dues, earnings, pay.

 

Duden Dictionary

Fee

Fee Substantiv, feminin , die |F ee |die Fee; Genitiv: der Fee, Plural: die Feen französisch fée = Fee, Zauberin < vulgärlateinisch Fata = Schicksalsgöttin, Fee, zu lateinisch fatum, Fatum mit Zauberkraft ausgestattete, meist schöne weibliche Gestalt aus dem Märchen, die Gutes oder auch Böses bewirkt eine gute, böse Fee | figurativ Tante Liese war unser Schutzengel und unsere gute Fee

 

French Dictionary

fée

fée n. f. nom féminin Être imaginaire du genre féminin doué d ’un pouvoir magique. : Un conte de fées, des contes de fées. Une bonne fée. Note Orthographique fé e.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fee

fee /fiː /〖語源は 「領土, 財産 」〗名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 C (参加 入場 受験などの )料金 , 手数料 ;〖通例 ～s 〗(学校 協会の )納付金 ▸ a tuition [school ] fee 授業料 ▸ pay [charge ] a fee 料金を支払う [請求する ]▸ the annual fee for a credit card クレジットカードの年会費 2 C 〖しばしば ～s 〗(弁護士 医師などに対する )報酬 , 謝礼 (→cost コーパスの窓 )▸ legal fees 弁護士費用 ▸ medical fees 医療費 3 U 〘法 〙世襲地, 相続地 ▸ lands held in fee (simple )相続財産として所有されている土地 4 C 心付け, チップ .5 U 〘史 〙(封建時代の )封土 .動詞 ～s ; ～d, ～'d ; ～ing 他動詞 ｟まれ ｠…に料金 [謝礼 ]を払う ;｟ スコット ｠…を雇う .～̀ s í mple 〘法 〙単純封土権 ; 無条件相続財産権 .～̀ t á il 〘法 〙限嗣 （げんし ）不動産権 .