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composition fee

composition fee noun: a payment of amends or to acquire a certain privilege, (universities) a tuition fee.

Noun

composition fee (plural composition fees)

  1. A payment of amends or to acquire a certain privilege, (universities) a tuition fee.
    • The subscribers of three guineas per annum were to be called governors, and were permitted to pay a composition fee of twenty guineas to obtain the privilege of life governor.1845, Erasmus Wilson, The History of the Middlesex Hospital during the First Century of its Existence, page 4
    • The maximum composition fee for an offence was raised from six hundred to a thousand dollars.1974, Thean Soo Lim, Sukumaran Nair, S. Mohd Razak, The Impact of Customs, Republic of Singapore, page 38

composition fee meaning in Tamil

composition fee in Tamil

சேர்க்கைக் கட்டணம்

Forms of composition fee

pluralcomposition fees

Origin of composition fee

Originally from an obsolete sense of composition, “payment to settle an obligation”, from Medieval Latin compositiō (“payment made in amends or settlement”), see citations; compare legal sense of compound, “settle with a smaller payment than the claim”. Later reanalysed in some cases as meaning “aggregate”.

Questions about composition fee

What does composition fee mean?
Composition fee means a payment of amends or to acquire a certain privilege, (universities) a tuition fee.
What is composition fee in Tamil?
Composition fee in Tamil is சேர்க்கைக் கட்டணம். See Composition fee meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is composition fee?
Composition fee is a noun.
What is the plural of composition fee?
The plural of composition fee is composition fees.

Words near composition fee in the dictionary

  1. composition algebras
  2. composition book
  3. composition books
  4. composition cloth
  5. composition cloths
  6. composition fee
  7. composition fees
  8. composition metal
  9. composition metals
  10. composition notebook
  11. composition notebooks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: composition fee (page history and authors); composition fee (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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