composition fee

名词 n.

英文释义

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

词形变化

composition fees plural

词源

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”.
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