Meaning

noun a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services

noun an interest in land capable of being inherited

verb give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on

originFrom Middle English fee, fe, feh, feoh, from Old English feoh (“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”) with contamination from Old French fieu, fief (from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (see feud), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”); whence fief), both from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”), from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“livestock”).…

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