fee vs recover

fee

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

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

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

  • 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. 

recover

verb
  • To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process 

  • To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit. 

  • To regain one's composure, balance etc. 

  • to salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person) 

  • To get better, to regain health or prosperity. 

  • To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body). 

  • To cover again. 

  • To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one. 

  • To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal). 

noun
  • A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out. 

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