Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fee-paying
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
school
▪ Over three quarters of the House of Lords attended fee-paying schools of one sort or another.
▪ Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school.
▪ But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools, provided that was not against the parents' principles.
▪ Since last summer at least 256 teachers had lost their jobs after 10 fee-paying schools folded, said officials.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An increasing proportion of these services will be provided by local communities on a fee-paying basis.
▪ But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools, provided that was not against the parents' principles.
▪ Even fee-paying pupils could, if parental circumstances entitled them, receive full or partial remission of fees at the public expense.
▪ Over three quarters of the House of Lords attended fee-paying schools of one sort or another.
▪ Since last summer at least 256 teachers had lost their jobs after 10 fee-paying schools folded, said officials.
▪ Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school.
Usage examples of "fee-paying".
My dead mother's sister, Aunt Susan (and her husband Harry) who had reluctantly agreed to bring me up, had felt affronted, and said so bitterly and often, when my father plucked me out of the comprehensive school that had been 'good enough' for her four sons, and insisted that I take diction lessons and extra tuition in maths, my best subject, and had by one way or another seen to it that I spent five years of intensive learning in a top fee-paying school, Malvern College.