Fee

late fee; license fee, admission fee; activation fee; service fee

legal fees; consulting fees

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;

What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee.

Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.

For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee.

In vain for Hellebore the patient cries / And fees the doctor; but too late is wise

There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed.

We departed the grounds without seeing Marbonna; and previous to vaulting over the picket, feed our pretty guide, after a fashion of our own.

It was at a much earlier hour than that which Mrs. Santon had named, that Delwood presented himself, and handsomely feeing the porter who answered his summons, he asked to see Miss Santon […]

Then turning to Fiona, she said, “Fee, I'll only be a minute. […]