(chiefly law) A payment of amends or to acquire a certain privilege, (universities) a tuition fee.

money needed to gain entry, or membership, to an event or an organisation.

a sum of money required to enrol on an official register generally used to defray the cost of administration but may include damage deposits or taxes.

Money needed to gain admittance to an event or an organisation

A financial charge levied on the family of an executed prisoner.

A fee charged by a library for the late return of an item

(cryptocurrencies) A fee levied on users of the Ethereum network to compensate for the computing energy required to process and validate transactions.

Synonym of license fee

(taxation) An amount of money collected from an individual or an organization by the government or other entity in order to legitimize an activity.

A consumer fraud that involves obtaining a relatively small amount of money from the victim in advance of some large deferred benefit, such as a job, a high rate of return, or a share of embezzled money.