Fee
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A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for services, especially the honorarium paid to a doctor, lawyer or member of a learned profession. As part of their mystique, traditional professionals in Britain received a fee in contradistinction to a payment, salary, wage or mere money, and would often use guineas rather than pounds as units of account.
- One may also charge/pay fees as a fixed sum for the right to enter for an examination, or on admission to membership of a university or other society.
- Fee could refer to a Speaking fee - A payment awarded to an individual for speaking at a public event.
- FEE is also an ironic acronym for the Everett Turnpike, a toll road in New Hampshire, United States.
- 'FEE' is also an acronym for the Foundation for Economic Education.
- For the technical (and original) usage of the term fee in the European feudal system see fiefdom.
- The Foundation for Educational Excellence, the name the Alameda Education Foundation was known for between 1984 to 1997.
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