Amount vs Fee - What's the difference?
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The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
A quantity or volume.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
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, title= The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
* 2001 , Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education , page 195:
To total or evaluate.
To be the same as or equivalent to.
(obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
* Spenser
(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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, 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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As nouns the difference between amount and fee
is that amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard english) while fee is (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.As verbs the difference between amount and fee
is that amount is to total or evaluate while fee is to reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.amount
English
(Quantity)Noun
(en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
- The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.
Derived terms
* principal amount * notional amountVerb
(en verb)- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- His response amounted to gross insubordination
- So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
Derived terms
* amount toSee also
* extent * magnitude * measurement * number * quantity * sizeExternal links
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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.