In lang=en terms the difference between fee and ticket
is that fee is an estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail) while ticket is a tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
As nouns the difference between fee and ticket
is that fee is a right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief while ticket is a pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
As verbs the difference between fee and ticket
is that fee is to reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe while ticket is to issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
Noun
(en noun)
- Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee .
- What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee .
- Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.
- For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee .
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Related terms
* feoffee* fief
Verb
- The patient . . . fees the doctor.
- There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed .
- We departed the grounds without seeing Marbonna; and previous to vaulting over the picket, feed our pretty guide, after a fashion of our own.
See also
* (wikipedia)
Noun
(en-noun)
- Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.
- Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket .
- That's the ticket .
- I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
- He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.
- Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.
Derived terms
* automatic ticket sampling machine* golden ticket* have tickets on oneself* lottery ticket* one-way ticket* that's the ticket* ticket machine* write one's own ticket
See also
Derived terms
* ticket off
