fee vs rebate

fee

noun
  • An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good that is minor compared to the underlying cost. 

  • A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service. 

  • Synonym of fief: the land so held. 

  • An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail). 

  • An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service. 

verb
  • To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. 

rebate

noun
  • The return of part of an amount already paid. 

  • An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. 

  • A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. 

  • The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed. 

  • A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement. 

  • A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. 

  • A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet. 

verb
  • To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment 

  • To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise. 

  • To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something 

  • To abate; to withdraw. 

  • Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate². 

  • To diminish or lessen something 

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