fee

«fee» in Mova's school dictionary: an amount of money you pay for a service or to be allowed… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (fee, fees)

meaning for a pupil

1) A fee is an amount of money you pay for a service or to be allowed to do something. tree →

2) Fee is a magic word that a giant chants in a rhyme, as in "Fee, fie, fo, fum." tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life there are entrance fees for museums and parks, school trip fees, library late fees and doctor's fees. In maths lessons pupils add fees to costs and work out totals. Phrases: entrance fee, late fee, school fees, pay a fee, a small fee, free of charge (no fee).

examples

• The entrance fee is five dollars. tree →
• We paid a fee to join the club. tree →
• Return the book or you will pay a late fee. tree →
• The museum has no fee on Sundays. tree →
• Some parents pay school fees. tree →
• There is a small fee for the swimming lessons. tree →
• The fee includes lunch. tree →
• “Fee, fie, fo, fum, I smell the blood of some earthly one. tree →

note

Countable noun (fees). A fee is paid for a service or permission; a fare is paid for travel; a fine is paid as a punishment. In maths, «a fee per person» means multiply by the number of people.

In the corpora

• Some cash machines charge a fee for taking out money, while most bank ones are free.
• Ask what the plain word would be: a fee, a bug, a loss, a tax, a lie.
• "Convenience fee" means an extra charge for paying online or by card (US).
• "Service charge" means an extra fee added to the bill (UK).
• "User fee" means a tax or charge for using a public service (US).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fee» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.