user fee

noun

: an excise tax often in the form of a license or supplemental charge levied to fund a public service

called also user's fee

Examples of user fee in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The enterprise fund is generated from airport user fees, such as airline terminal rents, aircraft landing fees, parking revenues and rental car customer facility charges, Johnson explained. — Sacbee.com, 27 July 2026

This result could be misleading, though, because gas taxes and other user fees only cover about half of state and local road spending on average. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 24 July 2026

As such, pricing models that are dependent on per-user fees can have redundant SaaS stacks or unused software licenses. — Girija Krishnamurthy, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

In a staff report describing the proposal, city officials said the user fees would simply allow the city to recover its costs for enforcing wage laws and helping businesses understand those laws and how to comply with them. — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for user fee

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