(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.
Zee
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 3:31:30 Unknown: "Was that cactus up by the Tappan Zee?"
(2) David Zee, oceanography professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, says the same pattern was evident at other sites that were supposed to have been improved in time for the Games.
(3) A., H. G. J. Everts, E. A. Vander Zee, P. G. M. Luiten, and B. Bohus (1992) Amygdala kindling-induced seizures selectively impair spatial memory.
(4) One region, here shown to be essential for mitosis, coincided with a part of the protein that is both necessary and sufficient to target Karl-lacZ hybrid proteins to the SPB (Vallen, E. A., T. Y. Scherson, T. Roberts, K. van Zee, and M. D. Rose.
(5) The Panel Paul Taylor – co-founder, Mode7 Games Rhodri Broadbent – co-founder of Dakko Dakko , previously at Q-Games and Lionhead Aj Grand-Scrutton – CEO, Dlala Studios Adam Saltsman – indie developer, creator of Canabalt and Hundreds Ste Pickford – co-founder Zee-3 digital publishing Alistair Aitcheson – indie developer, creator of Greedy Bankers and Slamjet Stadium Simon Barrett – founder, FourDoorLemon Dan Marshall – indie developer, SizeFiveGames Byron Atkinson-Jones – ex-Lionhead coder, now indie developer at Xiotex Lisa Brown - designer, Insomniac Games Sarah Ford – indie developer Adriel Wallick – Indie developer Allison Salmon – game developer and software engineer, Learning Games Network, ex-Raven Software Jennifer Schneidereit– co-founder Nyamyam , ex-Rare Design Rami Ismail – co-founder, Vlambeer What’s the best way to start making games?
(6) Two of these commonly used immobilizers, the Zee Extrication Device and the long spinal board, use crisscrossing straps over the thorax to affix the patient to the device.
(7) Similarly significant differences were found for three of the four parameters using the Zee Extrication Device: FVC (P = .004), FEV1 (P = .0022), and FEF 25%-75% (P = .008).
(8) The legacy that was most forgotten – even though it was the most commented on – was the environmental legacy,” Zee says.
(9) For refocusing computation, PSF of the light transmitted through the tissue was calculated by general equation proposed by van der Zee and Delpy (1988).
(10) Among other tributes, Sir Michael Caine, who starred with Taylor in 1972's Zee and Co, said: "So sad to hear about my beautiful friend Elizabeth Taylor.
(11) There are several escape routes from the metropolitan area, including the rusty, crumbling Pulaski Skyway in New Jersey and the well-past-its-prime Tappan Zee bridge, north of the city, opened in 1955.
(12) ABC's Ginger Zee took a picture this morning: Ginger Zee (@Ginger_Zee) Sunrise with no boardwalk in Atlantic City (on right).
(13) Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee, currently just beyond its halfway mark and viewable free and live online this weekend (12.30pm start) was expected to be another triumph for the world champion, Magnus Carlsen , after the 25-year-old Norwegian’s recent victories in London and Qatar but Carlsen only drew his first four games and was upstaged in the early rounds by the No1 woman player, four years his junior.
(14) The meteorologists interviewing Obama on Tuesday include: Al Roker, co-anchor of NBC's Today Show; Ginger Zee, meteorologist on ABC's Good Morning America; John Morales, chief meteorologist of NBC 6 in Miami, Florida, and Jim Gandy, meteorologist of WLTX-TV in Columbia, South Carolina.
(15) Advancing into his 40s, Mason had reason to think of bad luck as he played Erwin Rommel in a couple of movies, Rupert of Hentzau in a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda and "Hendrik van der Zee" in the dotty but deliriously beautiful romance, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.
(16) The localization of hybrid Kar1-lacZ proteins, described elsewhere (Vallen, E. A., T. Y. Scherson, T. Roberts, K. van Zee, and M. D. Rose.
(17) This domain included the hydrophobic carboxy terminus and is sufficient to target a lacZ-Kar1 hybrid protein to the nuclear envelope (Vallen E. A., T. Y. Scherson, T. Roberts, K. van Zee, and M. D. Rose.
(18) It also accelerates the recovery of experimentally damaged sciatic nerves (van der Zee et al., 1987) and reduces age-associated gait abnormalities in aging rats (Schuurman et al., 1987).
(19) A higher incidence has been reported by Zee-Cheng et al.
(20) 4) As for evaluation on the subjective expression, expressions such as "zee", "keen", "meen" were many.