English Explanatory Dictionary

composition fee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A payment of amends or to acquire a certain privilege, (universities) a tuition fee.

Word forms

composition fee composition fees

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”.

Related words

letter of composition
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