Compliment vs Fee - What's the difference?

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Compliment is a related term of fee.

As nouns the difference between compliment and fee

is that compliment is an expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect while fee is .

As a verb compliment

is (ambitransitive) to pay a compliment (to); to express a favorable opinion (of).

compliment

English

(wikipedia compliment)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) complire, from (etyl) complere

Noun

(en noun)

An expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect.

* Milton

Tedious waste of time, to sit and hear / So many hollow compliments and lies.

* Cowper

many a compliment politely penned

(uncountable) Complimentary language; courtesy, flattery.

This accomplished man condescended to think of a young girl, and take the pains to talk to her, not with absurd compliment , but with an appeal to her understanding, and sometimes with instructive correction.

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

*insult

Derived terms

* backhanded compliment * left-handed compliment * with compliments

Etymology 2

From (etyl), from (etyl) complimento'' (etyl) ''cumplimiento'', from ''cumplir'', from ''complire'', from (etyl) ''complere .

Verb

(en verb)

(ambitransitive) To pay a compliment (to); to express a favorable opinion (of).

* Prior

Monarchs should their inward soul disguise; / Should compliment their foes and shun their friends.

Antonyms

*insult

fee

English

Noun

(en noun)

(feudal law) 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.

(legal) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.

(legal) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail).

(obsolete) Property; owndom; estate.

* Wordsworth, On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee .

* 1844 , , by (James Russell Lowell)

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 .

* 1915 , :

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.

(obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.

(obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.10:

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

A monetary payment charged for professional services.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)

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Verb

To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

* (rfdate)

The patient . . . fees the doctor.

* (rfdate),

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

* Herman Melville, Omoo

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

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