Meaning & use
statutory fee
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Meaning
nouncountablelegal
A charge set by law that must be paid for an official service, such as filing a document or registering a property.
Grammar: Countable: the statutory fee for registration is fixed.
Patterns
- pay a statutory fee
- a statutory fee for something
You must pay a statutory fee when you register the company.
The statutory fee for the passport application has increased.
Lawyers cannot waive the statutory fee charged by the court.
Word forms
| plural | statutory fees |
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Common combinations
- pay the statutory fee
- Applicants must pay the statutory fee online.
- a fixed statutory fee
- A fixed statutory fee applies to all claims.
- waive the statutory fee
- The court may waive the statutory fee for low-income applicants.
- charge a statutory fee
- The registry charges a statutory fee for each document.
- statutory fees and charges
- Statutory fees and charges are listed on the website.
Synonyms and how they differ
- legal fee
- Legal fee usually means what a lawyer charges, while statutory fee is set by legislation.
- official fee
- Official fee is a general term and does not mention that a law sets it.
- filing fee
- Filing fee is narrower, covering the cost of submitting a document to a court or office.
- government charge
- Government charge is plainer and may also cover taxes, which a statutory fee is not.
Opposites
Word family
- statute noun
- a written law passed by a legislature
- statutory adjective
- required by law
- statutorily adverb
- in a way required by law
- fee noun
- a payment for a service
Commonly confused: statutory fee or statutory?
statutory fee vs statutory
Do not confuse statutory with statuary, which relates to statues.
Practice
The clerk explained that the ____ for registering the birth was set by law and could not be reduced.
Choose one answer.
A statutory fee is fixed by law. A tip and a donation are voluntary, and a commission is a payment to an agent.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “statutory fee”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.