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

An administration official told ABC News that’s because the federal government didn’t collect the user fees in those states. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

They will be funded through unspent user fees paid by insurers. — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Residents of the 20 states that operate their own exchanges are not eligible because the federal government did not collect user fees from those marketplaces. — Raul Trey Lopez, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2026

Combined, the airport and seaport studies cost less than $250,000 and were paid for by airport and seaport user fees. — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for user fee

• agree
• allee
• banshee
• beastly
• bibi
• bowsprit
• carefree
• cerci
• chablis
• cowpea
• crappie
• crappy