fees 1 of 2

noun

plural of fee
as in costs
the amount of money that is demanded as payment for something my dentist's fees seem to increase with every visit

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verb

present tense third-person singular of fee, chiefly Scottish
as in hires
to provide with a paying job the townspeople fee country lasses as housemaids, nurses, and cooks

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Recent Examples of fees
Noun
According to materials provided to CNBC, Google has also directly targeted Microsoft and Anthropic, claiming their recurring seat fees and separate product licenses make their offerings more expensive and less flexible. — Mackenzie Sigalos,drew Troast, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026 Key Points Different share classes of the same mutual fund generally hold the same investments and follow the same strategy, but their fees and eligibility requirements can differ. — Debbie Carlson, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026 For a line of credit, also understand how the lender handles renewals, draw fees and unused availability. — Joseph Lustberg, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Nike co-founder Phil Knight, who owns a jet with a custom N1KE tail number, received a notice for about $89,000 in taxes and fees that were supposed to be paid in 2022. — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 This is not what people pay $111 billion in acquisition fees to platform. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026 The legal fees are part of the final phase of the yearslong court battle after the pair reached a settlement in May. — Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 Blake Lively can recover about $400,000 in attorneys’ fees from Justin Baldoni’s production company over his defamation lawsuit against her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. — Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
The resolution also extends to Boise State, Colorado State and Utah State, which had filed a separate lawsuit against the Mountain West in state district court in Denver over nine-figure withdrawal fees their now-former league had sought to impose. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Devs can also cover users’ transaction fees thanks to gas sponsorship via Privy, simplifying onboarding and reducing friction for new users. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026 The reforms reduced incentives for policyholders, contractors and attorneys to sue insurers with little risk of having to pay insurers’ attorneys fees whether or not the suits were successful. — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fees
  1. costs
  2. hires
  3. prices
  4. recruits
  5. employs
  6. pays
Noun
  • Behrouz Mehri | Afp | Getty Images France's deteriorating public finances and political deadlock are becoming a growing concern for bond investors, with borrowing costs near financial-crisis-era highs as another difficult budget battle looms.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Restaurants and private grocery stores are struggling to stay open because of higher supply costs and lower consumption.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of costs
Verb
  • Shikiya’s new gig follows other recent Anonymous Content hires like Liza Burnett Fefferman as chief communications and marketing officer and Michael Sinclair as chief legal officer.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In the film, cartoon legend Coyote (who can’t speak, of course) hires a reluctant, unambitious lawyer Kevin Avery (East Bay native Will Forte) to be his mouthpiece and legal advocate.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of hires
Noun
  • Trump faces mounting pressure to address high gas prices as the war in Iran on Friday reached a six-month milestone with no conclusion in sight.
    — Aamer Madhani, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
  • New research from SellCell tracked trade-in prices across the last three Apple launches.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of prices
Verb
  • Set against the competitive world of Fleet Street, Murdoch purchases the failing Sun and recruits Lamb, a working-class editor with a very different idea of what a newspaper can be.
    — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
  • In the 1990 original, Quaid played a race team owner who recruits Cole into NASCAR, while Nicole Kidman played a neurosurgeon who becomes Cole’s love interest.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of recruits
Verb
  • The Indus basin supplies about 80% of the country's irrigated agriculture, a sector that employs 65% of the labor force and represents roughly 25% of Pakistan's gross domestic product, according to data compiled by Chatham House.
    — Sam Meredith,Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The sector employs more than 12,000 workers at over 1,800 firms.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of employs
Verb
  • The government created a national preventive care program decades ago and gave every citizen a right to regular checkups, which gave clinics a reason to buy expensive machines, which brought the volume that pays for the expensive machines.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The Avon Historical Society pays the liability for the inside of the building and the structural repairs, like the roof, are the town’s responsibility.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
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“Fees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fees. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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