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
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If public parking cannot actually be free, our primary choices come down to a general fee (taxes) on the entire city populace, or a user fee (paid parking lots and meters) by those who directly benefit from having a place to park.
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Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
The first phase is estimated to cost $110 million, and is fully funded by airport and user fees, and bonds backfilled by future collections from the same sources.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 3 Dec. 2025
The airport does not receive funding from Milwaukee County, instead raising revenue through user fees.
—Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 20 Oct. 2025
In fact, this kind of situation can’t occur in nearly 100 other countries around the world, because those countries fund air traffic control, much like airports, from customer user fees and long-term revenue bond financing.
—Robert Poole, Oc Register, 8 Oct. 2025
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Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
The first phase is estimated to cost $110 million, and is fully funded by airport and user fees, and bonds backfilled by future collections from the same sources.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 3 Dec. 2025
The airport does not receive funding from Milwaukee County, instead raising revenue through user fees.
—Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 20 Oct. 2025
In fact, this kind of situation can’t occur in nearly 100 other countries around the world, because those countries fund air traffic control, much like airports, from customer user fees and long-term revenue bond financing.
—Robert Poole, Oc Register, 8 Oct. 2025
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“User fee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/user%20fee. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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