(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.
Kee
Definition:
(n. pl.) See Kie, Ky, and Kine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lui Por, Cheung Chi-ping and Lam Wing-kee will be “released on bail pending investigation in the coming few days”, said Hong Kong police in a brief notice late on Wednesday, based on information from the public security department in neighbouring Guangdong province.
(2) Kee slaved away on features about the way Britain was shaping up for the future and trying to live down its colonial past.
(3) The hardline Dutch finance minister, Jan Kees De Jager, signalled that the eurozone would run that risk.
(4) Speaking to the media at the start of the two-day Eurogroup meeting in Nicosia, Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager said that if Greece's recession is deeper than expected, perhaps it could be given more time to hit its targets.
(5) Sixteen consecutive patients were treated for septic arthritis of the kee with arthroscopic lavage and debridement.
(6) To test the feasibility of the system design a prototype has been built using Knowledge Engineering Environment (KEE) from Intellicorp on an Explorer workstation from Unisys.
(7) In his later years, Kee campaigned in a quiet way for his main thesis that justice must rest on truth – which was not an easy argument to put across in an age of spin doctors and other partisan manipulators.
(8) One interviewer asked Kee: "Had you been an Englishman in 1870, would you have supported Parnell?"
(9) Eurozone finance ministers are sharply divided over how to handle the spiralling Greek debt crisis, Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager revealed as he attacked France's plans for a new rescue package.
(10) Kees van den Berg, from Utrecht, who was catching a taxi into town with his girlfriend, Martje, flashed an envelope containing €1,500.
(11) Only Lam Wing-kee has jumped bail while on a visit to Hong Kong in June to retrieve a computer database.
(12) The mobility of the loaded carrier as well as Kee increased with a decrease in lipid solubility of the nucleoside substrate, but the relationship was complex.
(13) "Substantial private-sector involvement is for the Netherlands and Germany a precondition," said the Dutch finance minister, Jan Kees de Jager, emphasising that investor participation, whether voluntary or not and whether triggering a Greek default or not, was paramount.
(14) Lam Wing-kee made his claims on Thursday evening at a news conference in Hong Kong, stoking fears about China violating individual freedoms and liberty in the former British colony.
(15) Robert Kee, who has died aged 93, belonged to a vanishing tradition of great TV documentary makers and presenters with roots in print journalism and books.
(16) Isaacs remembered trying to look over Kee's shoulder at the script Kee was working on and then offering a suggestion.
(17) The tools available in KEE were then used to identify the tumor type for a hypothetical patient.
(18) But when a documentary he made on the Falklands was edited by the producer in such a way as to give what Kee considered disproportionate coverage to the minority opponents of the war, he split with the BBC.
(19) "The contagion risk would be far, far smaller than one and a half years ago," said the Dutch finance minister, Jan Kees de Jager, of the effect of a Greek exit.
(20) Kee found himself able to support British governments of any political shade who tried to find a solution to the Irish problem, but he was not the sort of man to indulge himself in the approval of fudges.