Complimentary vs Fee - What's the difference?
complimentary | fee |
In the nature of a compliment.
* , The Letters of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (published 2004) p. 56.
Free; provided at no charge.
* Vivien Lougheed, Belize Pocket Adventures (2005), p. 65.
With respect to the closing of a letter, formal and professional.
* Richard H. Beatty, The Perfect Cover Letter (2003).
(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
* 1844 , , by (James Russell Lowell)
* 1915 , :
(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:
A monetary payment charged for professional services.
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, title= To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
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* Herman Melville, Omoo
As an adjective complimentary
is in the nature of a compliment.As a noun fee is
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.As a verb fee is
to reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.complimentary
English
(wikipedia complimentary)Adjective
(en adjective)- But yesterday evening late, when Lewis arrived from down town he found his supper spread, and some presents of books there, with very complimentary' writings on the fly-leaves, and certain very ' complimentary letters, and more or less greenbacks of dignified denomination pinned to those letters and fly-leaves...
- In the evenings, Ward and PJ offer guests a complimentary drink. This gesture seems to reinforce the hosts' desire to make everyone feel welcome.
- The complimentary closing is the word grouping used to bring the message or text to a close.
Usage notes
* Complimentary and complementary are frequently confused and misused in place of one another.Antonyms
* uncomplimentaryDerived terms
* complimentarily * complimentarinessfee
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=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.}}
Verb
- The patient . . . fees the doctor.
- 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.