English > fee: 3 senses > noun 1, possession| Meaning | A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services. |
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| Narrower | anchorage | A fee for anchoring |
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| cellarage | A charge for storing goods in a cellar |
| commission | A fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary) |
| contingency fee | A fee that is payable only if the outcome is successful (as for an attorney's services) |
| dockage, docking fee | A fee charged for a vessel to use a dock / dock |
| drop-off charge | A fee added for returning a rented car to a location different from the one where it was rented |
| entrance fee, admission, admission charge, admission fee, admission price, price of admission, entrance money | The fee charged for admission |
| finder's fee | A fee that is paid to someone who finds a source of financial backing or to someone who brings people together for business purposes |
| legal fee | A fee paid for legal service |
| licensing fee, license fee, license tax | A fee paid to the government for the privilege of being licensed to do something (as selling liquor or practicing medicine) |
| lighterage | The fee charged for carrying goods in lighters |
| lockage | A fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway |
| mintage | fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin |
| moorage | A fee for mooring |
| origination fee | A fee charged to a borrower (especially for a mortgage loan) to cover the costs of initiating the loan |
| pipage | A fee charged for the use of pipes |
| poundage | A fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals |
| retainer, consideration | A fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone |
| seigniorage | Charged by a government for coining bullion |
| toll | A fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance) |
| truckage | A fee charged for transporting goods by truckage |
| tuition, tuition fee | A fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education) |
| wharfage, quayage | A fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay |
| Broader | fixed charge, fixed cost, fixed costs | A periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.) |
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| Spanish | cuota, estipendio, honorario, honorarios, tarifa |
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| Catalan | estipendi, honorari, taxa |
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