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Price vs Fee - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between price and fee

is that price is to set a price on; to value; to prize while fee is a prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.

As nouns the difference between price and fee

is that price is the cost required to gain possession of something while 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 verbs the difference between price and fee

is that price is to determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on while fee is to reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

As a proper noun Price

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As a phrase PRICE

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price

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The cost required to gain possession of something.
  • * Shakespeare
  • We can afford no more at such a price .
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .}}
  • The cost of an action or deed.
  • Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
  • Her price is far above rubies.
  • * Keble
  • new treasures still, of countless price

    Derived terms

    * list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset price

    Verb

    (pric)
  • To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
  • (obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
  • Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
  • (obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
  • (colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
  • to price eggs

    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)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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

  • 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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