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Recent Examples of service charge
The dinner is $175 per person, plus tax and service charge.
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Many restaurants outside the U.S. will instead include a service charge on your bill in place of a tip.
—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2025
Why is the city proposing to increase this meter service charge rate every year for four years?
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Over time, this could lead to service charges or higher base pay as consumers question tipping.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 June 2025
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Many restaurants outside the U.S. will instead include a service charge on your bill in place of a tip.
—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2025
Why is the city proposing to increase this meter service charge rate every year for four years?
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Over time, this could lead to service charges or higher base pay as consumers question tipping.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for service charge
Recent Examples of Synonyms for service charge
Noun
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Speaking of Raw, the cost of engaging with the weekly show’s young audience is a steal, with media buyers noting that the average unit price in this year’s upfront came in around $14,000 a pop.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Delinquency rates for borrowers with higher scores have remained relatively stable.—
Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
20 Oct. 2025
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Six weeks into the season, the Colts lead the NFL in dropback success rate, largely on the backs of their diverse, dynamic group of pass catchers.—
Robert Mays,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Beyond the realm of the physical world, where particles are involved in simple roles like carrying charge or existing as matter, there is the quantum world, where particles pass through solid barriers or communicate via large distances even though they are not connected in any manner.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Feb. 2025
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The report also said that carrying charges — the monthly payments made by members — had not kept up with the rising costs of operating the co-op and between 50 to 100 residents did not pay those charges on time.—
Lizzie Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Nov. 2024
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Indeed, after the sale was announced, conservative activist and podcaster Joe Oltmann, a prominent election denier based in Colorado, blasted Leiendecker in a Facebook post.—
Bente Birkeland,
NPR,
18 Oct. 2025
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In recent years, some Wyandotte residents have tried to get the government to delay or cancel its tax sales, which usually happen twice a year, to prevent people who have struggled to pay sky-rocketing property tax bills from losing their family homes.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
18 Oct. 2025
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While maintaining the designer’s signature lines and silhouettes, Lauren Ralph Lauren offers a more accessible price point with contemporary pieces in women’s and men’s apparel, shoes and accessories.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025
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And her style is mimicked throughout by Edibiri’s character Maggie Price (who wears clothes by young British designer Grace Wales Bonner, which is just as classy but not at the same extortionate price point).—
Kati Chitrakorn,
CNN Money,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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While home improvement stores are gaining interest from Halloween shoppers, 42% of shoppers still plan to hit big-box discount stores, up 5% from a year ago with 31% expecting to shop in Halloween/costume stores and 31% expecting to do some online shopping.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Oct. 2025
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Sneakers The discounts on top picks in Amazon’s fashion department are beyond impressive right now.—
Clara McMahon,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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The company has added a 15% tariff surcharge to products to offset the cost of tariffs.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2025
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Severin Borenstein, a professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the former chair of the California Energy Commission’s Petroleum Market Advisory Committee, identified the surcharge by analyzing years of gas prices in the state and comparing them to costs in other states.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Trump had previously imposed 145% tariffs on China, then put them on hold to allow negotiations to play out.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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Geopolitics, uncertainty over trade tariffs and the difficulties faced by high-end players continued to weigh on exhibitors and visitors at Première Classe, Tranoï and Man / Woman, all of which ran through the first weekend of October.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Service charge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/service%20charge. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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