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composition fee

noun

Etymology

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”.

  1. derived from compositiō — “payment made in amends or settlement”

Definitions

  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.
    • The maximum composition fee for an offence was raised from six hundred to a thousand dollars.

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