finder's fee

1. 1.

   a fee that is paid to someone who finds a source of financial backing or to someone who brings people together for business purposes

   “the agency got a finder's fee when their candidate was hired as the new CEO”

   Broaderfee

Questions about finder's fee

What does finder's fee mean?

finder's fee means "a fee that is paid to someone who finds a source of financial backing or to someone who brings people together for business purposes".

Is finder's fee a common word?

finder's fee is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.