Examples of fee in a Sentence
Alex Harring, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
An hour-long drive to a regional airport instead of a major international hub can lead to lower ticket prices and fewer fees.
—Essence, 24 Oct. 2025
The federal government never requests that consumers pay fees or provide personal or financial information in order to distribute a payment, as that information would likely already be gathered during the application process.
—Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
It is headquartered in Calumet; check with individual sites regarding entry fees.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Fee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fee. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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fee
nounU.S. Code Note: Allotments of parcels of land in reservations are held in private ownership by fee patents.
Note: The fee tail developed out of the fee simple conditional as a means to ensure that property would remain intact and in the family. Instead of giving the grantee a fee simple absolute once he or she has a child, which the grantee could then alienate (as by selling), the fee tail creates a future interest in the descendants which prevents the grantee and the descendants from alienating the property. A fee tail is created by a conveyance to the grantee and to the heirs of the grantee's body. In most jurisdictions, the fee tail is not recognized.
called also contingency, contingent fee
compare champerty, maintenanceNote: Filing fees are ordinarily charged in civil matters with the filing of the complaint.
Noun
Middle English, fief, from Old French fé, fief, ultimately from a Germanic word akin to Old High German fehu cattle
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