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fee

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1. fee - Noun

2. fee - Verb

Meaning

property; possession; tenure.

Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.

A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.

An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.

An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.

To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. James Cameron (director)

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee. Banksy

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. Martin H. Fischer

The world is a good teacher, but it charges a huge fee. Finnish Proverb

A lawyer's fee and a harlot's wages are paid in advance. Hindi Proverb

God cures and the physician takes the fee. English Proverb

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