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fees

/fiːz/

fees is the plural of fee.

fees is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fee.

Meaning of fee

Noun

fee (plural fees)

  1. An amount charged in return for permission to do something
    • television license fee
  2. An amount charged ancillary to the (occasionally null) base cost of a product or service; an additional charge, nominally for some additional privilege, ability or permission.
    • booking fee, late fee
  3. An amount charged for something: the base cost of purchasing some thing, service, etc.
    • admission fee, membership fee, drivers' license fee
    Synonyms:
    tax
  4. A fixed rate or price charged for (chiefly white-collar) professional services.
    • lawyers' fees, tuition fee, bank fees, legal fees, consulting fee
  5. An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail).
  6. (historical) A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service.

See all 14 meanings of fee

Proper noun capitalized: Fees

Fees (plural Feeses)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of fees

pluralFeeses

Origin of fees

Borrowed from German Fees, a variant of Feese.

Phrases with fees

29 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with fees

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about fees

What does fees mean?
Fees means a surname from German.
What is fees the plural of?
Fees is the plural of fee.
What part of speech is fees?
Fees is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fees?
Fees is pronounced /fiːz/.

Words near fees in the dictionary

  1. feerie
  2. feeries
  3. feering
  4. feerings
  5. feers
  6. fees
  7. fees simple
  8. fees simple subject to condition subsequent
  9. fees simple subject to executory interest
  10. fees simple subject to executory limitation
  11. fees tail

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