(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
(n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
(v. t.) To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(3) According to the OFT, banks receive up to £3.5bn a year in unauthorised overdraft fees - nearly £10m a day.
(4) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(5) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
(6) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(7) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
(8) Quoting the BBC-commissioned survey of more than 2,000 adults, Lyons said they had been given six choices what to do with the licence fee surplus once digital switchover was complete.
(9) She said the rise in fees was not part of the effort to tackle the deficit, but was instead about Clegg "going along with Tory plans to shove the cost of higher education on to students and their families".
(10) Whereas 87% of U.S. physicians supported private fee-for-service health care, 85% of Canadian physicians supported government-funded national health insurance.
(11) Burns has a successful track record of opposing fees.
(12) This article compares patterns of health care utilization for hospitalizations and ambulatory care in a sample of 1855 urban, elderly, community residents who report obtaining their health care from one of four types of arrangements: a fee-for-service (FFS) physician, a hospital-based health maintenance organization, a network model HMO, or a preferred provider organization (PPO).
(13) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.
(14) Education is becoming unaffordable because of tuition fees and rent.
(15) Many cases before the commissioner remain unresolved, although those who wish to pursue matters to the tribunal as part of the transitional arrangements will not have to pay an additional fee to appeal to the tribunal.
(16) In early 2009, he took part in Celebrity Big Brother for a rumoured fee of £100,000.
(17) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
(18) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(19) "Hints that the license fee payer will be hit are the closest the Tories come to explaining how they intend to pay for this."
(20) Meanwhile, we need to show that the recent changes to how we work with the BBC Executive are allowing us to be more focused, more rigorous and more transparent in the work that we do, so that licence fee payers can get a better BBC.
Feet
Definition:
(n. pl.) See Foot.
(n.) Fact; performance.
(pl. ) of Foot
Example Sentences:
(1) 7 right-handed male university students stood behind a large Plexiglas screen and spatially matched a ball projected over a distance of 20 feet.
(2) The Vatican spokesman said two of the 12 whose feet were washed were Muslim inmates.
(3) The present study includes six patients, (involving ten feet), who developed hallux varus and great toe clawing after McBride procedures were performed by various orthopedic surgeons.
(4) Often they were 3-0 up by then, but that is unlikely to be the case in the World Cup , and in 30 degrees we could be out on our feet after 20 minutes.
(5) The area occupied by parenchymal cells, in sections comprising the entire half of the surface of the carotid body, is significantly greater in people born and living at 14,350 feet than in those at sea level.
(6) Deformities of the foot were common, and twelve feet had been operated on for correction.
(7) Nonmetallic foreign bodies were embedded in cadaver feet.
(8) I was so tired I just used to fall asleep on my feet.
(9) Callosities under at least one metatarsophalangeal joint were noted in fifty (69 per cent) of the feet that had a physical examination.
(10) Although the majority of pigs had lesions in feet, or had dyschondroplastic changes typical of osteochondrosis in many growth cartilages, particularly physes, there were no significant differences in frequency of pigs with lesions between groups.
(11) A matter of minutes after his appointment was announced on Thursday, the newly minted minister for Portsmouth was on his feet answering questions in the Commons.
(12) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
(13) Cabin altitudes ranged from sea level to 8,915 feet (2717 m).
(14) The authors have presented a forensic anthropology case that established positive identification by comparison of antemortem and postmortem x-rays of the legs and feet.
(15) This is a team who have found their feet after that winless group section, a side who have already seen off the much admired Croatia and who can ruffle the feathers of the hosts or the reigning world champions.
(16) He was looking down at his feet - and she realised he felt the shame, too.
(17) The presence of flat feet and excessive laxity of the joints, associated with the characteristic facies, macro-orchidism, and behavior, justifies a referral for developmental and genetic evaluation.
(18) Fifteen feet had a good and two had a poor correction of the deformity of the hind part of the foot, the result being directly related to the intraoperative correction of the equinus deformity.
(19) The findings showed that flat feet are usual in infants, common in children, and within the normal range of the observations made in adult feet.
(20) A case is presented where the bones of both hands and both feet exhibited bone metastases.