Definition of fee

• n. - property; possession; tenure.
• 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.