service charges

noun

variants also service fees
plural of service charge
as in carrying charges

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  1. rates
  2. sales
  3. tariffs
Noun
  • Data published by the CDC shows that more than half of the Covid deaths between 2020 and 2023 were among adults 75 and older, and hospitalization rates among seniors were consistently higher than in other age groups.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Roughly 400 private, not-for-profit four-year institutions have admissions rates of at least 80%, according to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of rates
Noun
  • While air conditioning accounts for a small portion of Chinese exports to the EU, China has seized on the surge in sales as evidence that European consumers need Chinese products.
    — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
  • The draw game sales figure doesn’t include state revenue from the recent rollover jackpots in the multi-state games of Powerball and Mega Millions, where the winning ticket on Tuesday was sold at a Wawa in Bradenton.
    — Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
Definition of sales
Noun
  • The retailer was also hit by tariffs and is navigating the soaring price of memory chips, which have caused the costs of some consumer electronics to rise.
    — Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Overturning the eighty-year-old world trade system by imposing arbitrary tariffs?
    — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of tariffs
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“Service charges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/service%20charges. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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