Fee

A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for services, especially the honorarium paid to a doctor, lawyer or member of a learned profession. As part of their mystique, traditional professionals in Britain received a fee in contradistinction to a payment, salary, wage or mere money, and would often use guineas rather than pounds as units of account.

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One may also charge/pay fees as a fixed sum for the right to enter for an examination, or on admission to membership of a university or other society.

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FEE is also an ironic acronym for the Everett Turnpike, a toll road in New Hampshire, United States.

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For the technical (and original) usage of the term fee in the European feudal system see fiefdom.

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