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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Developer user fees, modeled on the FDA’s, can build it. — Alon Bergman, STAT, 11 May 2026 Community development costs are mostly recouped by user fees. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 21 Apr. 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 company most impacted by the user fees will be SpaceX, which owns and operates the vast majority of US launch and reentry vehicles. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for user fee

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of user fee was in 1967

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“User fee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/user%20fee. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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