composition fee
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A payment of amends or to acquire a certain privilege, (universities) a tuition fee.
Example Sentences
- "The subscribers of three guineas per annum were to be called governors, and were permitted to pay a composition fee of twenty guineas to obtain the privilege of life governor."
- "The maximum composition fee for an offence was raised from six hundred to a thousand dollars."
- "Payment of a University Composition Fee under these regulations shall entitle a matriculated student without additional fee ¶ (a) to attend any course within the University which is listed in the table of fees attached to these regulations […]"
Etymology
Originally from an obsolete sense of composition, “payment to settle an obligation”, from Medieval Latin compositiō (“payment made in amends or settlement”), see citations; compare legal sense of compound, “settle with a smaller payment than the claim”. Later reanalysed in some cases as meaning “aggregate”.
Word Breakdown
- Root: compositiō