composition fee

短语

词形变化

composition fees 复数 composition fees

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    法律

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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