a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services 专业服务费;咨询费 ■money paid as part of a special transaction, for example for a privilege or for admission to something (为特殊事务,如特权或进入权支付的)手续费 the gallery charges an admission fee. 这个美术馆要收门票。 ■(一般作 fees)money regularly paid (especially to a school or similar institution) for continuing services (交给学校或类似机构的)固定费用;学费 tuition fees have now reached $9000 a year. 学费现在已达每年9,000美元。
(Law, historical)an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service (律 史)封地,采邑
(fees, fee'd或feed, feeing)
[with obj.](rare)make a payment to (someone) in return for services (罕)付给(某人)服务费
常用词组 hold something in fee
(Law, historical)hold an estate in return for feudal service to a superior (律 史)(因履行封建义务而)获封(土地),拥有(封地)
语源
Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French feu, fief, from medieval Latin feodum, feudum, ultimately of Germanic origin. Compare with feu, feud, and fief