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

While many SaaS vendors have made AI a central part of their product offerings, the proliferation of agentic AI has led companies like Sanofi to chart a different course, which could threaten SaaS vendors and their standard per-user fee structure. —John Kell, Fortune, 27 May 2026

Sanitary landfills are intended only for residual waste that cannot be reused, recycled, processed, or recovered, and higher user fees are prescribed for unsegregated waste to motivate proper segregation and treatment. —Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026

Developer user fees, modeled on the FDA’s, can build it. —Alon Bergman, STAT, 11 May 2026

The Federal Aviation Administration is ready to begin collecting user fees for the first time for commercial launches and reentries, which could generate millions of dollars annually, Space News reports. —Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for user fee

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