composition fee
composition fee · composition fees
A payment of amends or to acquire a certain privilege, a tuition feeA payment of amends or to acquire a certain privilege, (universities) a tuition fee.
Meaning
1 sensesA payment of amends or to acquire a certain privilege, (universities) a tuition fee.
Origin
Originally from an obsolete sense of composition, “payment to settle an obligation”, fromOriginally 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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Forms
plural: composition fees| Singular | composition fee |
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