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Meaning of fee-paying in English

fee-paying
adjective
uk
/ˈfiːˌpeɪ.ɪŋ/ us
/ˈfiːˌpeɪ.ɪŋ/
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A fee-paying school is one where parents pay the school directly for their children's education.
used to refer to people who pay for something rather than getting it for free:
fee-paying student mainly UK The school is attended by fee-paying students from many countries.
Branson's new venture is to take fee-paying passengers into space.
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(Definition of fee-paying from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of fee-paying

fee-paying
In addition, there is an independent school sector, partially funded by both fee-paying students and completely private fee-paid schools.
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The forms of childcare included are: fee-paying childcare (private nursery, childminders, out-of-school clubs, nannies), informal family care, and stateprovided early education in school nurseries.
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Moreover, when parents want to send their school-age children to fee-paying schools, the grandparents sometimes help.
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Take a private school (fee-paying and attended by about one child in fifteen).
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I personally know of several cases of parents unable to accept that their capital outlay on the best fee-paying schools has not guaranteed academic excellence.
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They were particularly repulsed by flamboyant showmen who pandered to the hoi polloi with what were seen as vulgar demonstrations to fee-paying audiences.
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In addition to having fewer fee-paying vendors, these markets also charge lower stall fees than larger markets and thus face two challenges to generating administrative revenue.
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This was an economic burden that they often would not carry, especially since the future of the suburbs was uncertain as regards, for example, tax- and water fee-paying capacity.
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But of course we are not doing away with existing fee-paying schools; we are only doing away with fee-paying.
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They have been non-fee-paying schools now for many years without their standards diminishing in the slightest.
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It is one of the few fee-paying schools left there.
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We will then know how many places were awarded to fee-paying pupils in 1982–83.
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We see an ancient heritage likely to fall before legislation which will probably refer to our fee-paying schools.
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If that is so, ought they to have to pay the full cost of education if they opt for a fee-paying school?
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Gradually and subtly the distinction as between fee-paying and non-fee-paying pupils will creep in.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
付費的，繳費的…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
付费的，缴费的…
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in Spanish
particular, de pago, que paga…
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in Portuguese
pago, particular…
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