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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The Humane Society administers the fee schedule under its contract, and user fees must be approved by the City Council.
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Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
While gas taxes once resembled a user fee, the decline in revenues means states are increasingly drawing from their general fund to finance road maintenance and repairs.
—Tirzah Duren, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025
Starting with the staff reductions ordered at the USCIS (which is funded by user fees, not tax dollars).
—Billal Rahman
dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Those decisions included rejections of conservative challenges to Obamacare and to a federal subsidy program for internet and phone services for poor and rural communities that is funded by user fees.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 5 July 2025
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Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
While gas taxes once resembled a user fee, the decline in revenues means states are increasingly drawing from their general fund to finance road maintenance and repairs.
—Tirzah Duren, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025
Starting with the staff reductions ordered at the USCIS (which is funded by user fees, not tax dollars).
—Billal Rahman
dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Those decisions included rejections of conservative challenges to Obamacare and to a federal subsidy program for internet and phone services for poor and rural communities that is funded by user fees.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 5 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for user fee
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“User fee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/user%20fee. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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