{
    "term": "fee",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an amount of money that you pay for professional advice or services",
            "sensetop": "fee for somethingfee for doing somethingfor a fee",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Employees are reimbursed for any **legal fees** incurred when they relocate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "fee-paying schools *(= that you have to pay to go to)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **school fees** are expected to rise again next year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Students take out loans to cover **tuition fees**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Customers **pay an** annual **fee** for the service.",
                    "contextForm": "fee for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Does the bank **charge a fee** for setting up the account?",
                    "contextForm": "fee for doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Users can block ads for a small **monthly fee**.",
                    "contextForm": "for a fee"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Additional security fees apply."
                },
                {
                    "text": "All fees are payable when the invoice is issued."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Freelance writers often set their own fees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He agreed to waive his usual fee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I expect you had to pay a fat fee to your divorce lawyers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many tax advisers now offer fixed fee interviews."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Send the form, together with the appropriate fee, to the Land Registry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She negotiated a fee of $1 800 a week."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company will earn a fee for every barrel of oil produced."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company's consultancy fee income rose by 3% last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The fee includes the cost of testing the electric wiring."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their fees are quite reasonable."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is no additional fee for this insurance cover."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They charge higher fees to overseas students."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We will be taking active steps to collect the outstanding fees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You'll need money to cover fees and expenses."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the administrative fees on the pension scheme"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the professional fees of the lawyers and accountants involved"
                },
                {
                    "text": "university top-up fees"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The family spent over £20 000 on legal fees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They send their children to a fee-paying school."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["exorbitant", "fat", "hefty"],
                "verb + fee": ["charge", "impose", "incur"],
                "fee + verb": ["be due", "be payable", "apply"],
                "fee + noun": ["income", "revenue", "payment"],
                "preposition": ["for a fee", "fee for", "fee on"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an amount of money that you pay to join an organization, or to do something",
            "sensetop": "fee for something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **membership/subscription fee**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is no entrance fee to the gallery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the TV **licence fee**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You have to **pay a fee** to enter the race."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **registration fee** for the event is £35.",
                    "contextForm": "fee for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "For a small fee, anyone can use these facilities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The admission fee has gone up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had to pay a nominal fee to join the club."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We now charge a fee for museum entrance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a £30 membership fee"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a $1 200 initiation fee"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Club members pay an annual membership fee of £775."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money", "Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["exorbitant", "fat", "hefty"],
                "verb + fee": ["charge", "impose", "incur"],
                "fee + verb": ["be due", "be payable", "apply"],
                "fee + noun": ["income", "revenue", "payment"],
                "preposition": ["for a fee", "fee for", "fee on"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fiː/",
                "audio": "fe/fee/fee__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fiː/",
                "audio": "fe/fee/fee__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French feu, fief, from medieval Latin feodum, feudum, ultimately of Germanic origin. Compare with feud and fief."
}