[General] Does your company cover your fee in Chongqing?

[Silverobama]

Hi.

I met a young woman in my English club tonight. She comes from Beijing and is on business trip in my city. We chatted with each other and I asked her a question "Does your company cover your fee in Chongqing?". I wonder if it's natural to mean "When you're in Chongqing, does your company pay for all the expenses here?".

Please enlighten me on the italic sentence.

 

[emsr2d2]

[STRIKE]Hi.[/STRIKE] Unnecessary. Please just go straight into your question.

I met a young woman in my English club tonight. She comes from Beijing and is on a business trip in my city. We chatted with each other and I asked her [STRIKE]a question[/STRIKE] "Does your company cover your fee in Chongqing?" no full stop here I wonder if it's natural if I use it to mean "When you're in Chongqing, does your company pay for all the expenses here?" no full stop here

Please [STRIKE]enlighten me on[/STRIKE] tell me if the italic sentence is correct and natural.

Please note my corrections above. You must remember that if a quote ends with its own punctuation mark, we don't put a full stop after the closing quotation mark.

 

[teechar]

"Does your company cover your fee in Chongqing?". I wonder if [STRIKE]it's natural to[/STRIKE] it means the same as "When you're in Chongqing, does your company pay for all the expenses here?".

No. Use the second one.

 

[Silverobama]

It isn't.

A fee is something that is paid for a service.

Piscean, I wonder if the following sentence is natural (without changing the sentence structure but words).

Does your company cover all your expenses in Chongqing?

 

[tedmc]

Cover is the same as pay.
The other possibility is "reimburse", which is when the company pays the staff after the latter has paid for the expenses.

 

[Tdol]

It is probably better if they only cover your genuine business expenses as it is possible to spend money on things that are not tax-deductible.