(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.
Wee
Definition:
(n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.
(a.) Very small; little.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three brands of Ca supplement, a laboratory-reagent grade CaCO3 and a certified reference material (International Atomic Energy Agency H-5 Animal Bone) wee analysed for Cd and Pb by four different analytical techniques, viz., anodic stripping voltammetry inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, flame atomic absorption spectrometry and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.
(2) An alphavirus group-reactive hemagglutination (HA) site, a WEE complex-reactive HA site, and a WEE virus-specific HA site were identified.
(3) Paired sera from 20 humans with eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus infections and from 17 humans with western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus infections, all with previously demonstrated fourfold or greater rises or falls in hemagglutination-inhibiting, complement-fixing, or neutralizing antibody titers, were tested for immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG antibodies by an enzyme immunoassay.
(4) Studies were undertaken to develop an amplified ELISA for the rapid detection of WEE virus from mosquitoes.
(5) The SNP MP John Nicolson said of Daley’s case: “His poster sales have gone up and now there are wee girls and wee boys putting his poster up on the walls.
(6) He’s spat on and has wee thrown at him.” Rutherford is also concerned about the governance of the sport.
(7) dorsalis also demonstrated some alterations in response to WEE viral infection that were unique relative to Cx.
(8) Antibodies specific for three epitopes were able to passively protect mice from WEE virus challenge.
(9) Current monitoring systems to detect western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus in mosquitoes involve isolation in suckling mice or cell culture followed by serological identification of the isolates obtained.
(10) The Toon, on the other hand, are in a wee spot of temporary bother.
(11) These viruses are the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE), St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE), Mucambo (MUC) and Pixuna (PIX).
(12) 8.08pm BST 6 min: Baines goes on a wee jog down the left, and guides a cross-cum-pass into the area for Rooney, arriving late level with the left-hand post, ten yards out.
(13) The postoperative changes in condylar position wee assessed in terms of direction and amount.
(14) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.
(15) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
(16) Flocks of sentinel domestic pigeons (Columbia livia) detected increases in St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) and western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) virus activity in southern California concurrently with flocks of sentinel chickens.
(17) The infection and morphogenetic events associated with the replication of Western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) virus within the mesenterons of Aedes dorsalis and three strains of Culex tarsalis are compared and contrasted.
(18) Two species of ticks that are ectoparasitic on rodents in Kern County were evaluated as vectors of WEE virus.
(19) Plaque-neutralizing antibody responses to VEE virus in the EEE virus- and WEE virus-seropositive equids were similar in time of onset and titer to the antibody responses of nonimmunized equids.
(20) IgM antibody declined but persisted for at least 3 months after the onset of illness in one individual each with EEE and WEE.