service charge

variants also service fee

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of service charge At the same time, the practice of adding service charges to restaurant checks has grown in Southern California and across the nation in recent years, giving rise to a debate about how the fees should be treated by customers and workers. Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024 This includes service charges on deposit accounts and mortgage banking income. Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024 Look for special service charges; some restaurants may include gratuity for special occasions or parties over a certain size. Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Nov. 2024 Noninterest income rose to $12.4 million from $5.9 million, with significant contributions from wealth management income and service charges. Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for service charge 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for service charge
Noun
  • Rising rates drive some customers to stop making payments.
    Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The City Council is slated to approve the new citation rates in March, and they are scheduled to take effect April 1.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Co-op residents — often referred to as member-owners — pay monthly fees called carrying charges.
    Nneka McGuire and Nicholas Padiak, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
Noun
  • Tickets for the two U.S. dates are set to go on sale today at 10 a.m. local time.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Union members say Costco needs to offer a labor contract that reflects its sales and profit growth.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Oliver Stephenson, associate director of AI and emerging tech policy at the Federation of American Scientists, says that people shouldn’t draw conclusions from this price point.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Congestion pricing, which should provide both a financial and a psychological boost to the system, was passed by the state legislature after years of debate, then abruptly paused by Governor Kathy Hochul in 2024, and at last implemented this month, at a lower price point.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • All of this, the Andersons would later learn from court documents, worried Evans, the manager who had helped Scott with the hotel discount soon after first joined.
    Justine Harman, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2025
  • For travelers looking to save, the airline is currently running a spring sale, which provides a 15 percent discount on all flights before June 30, 2025.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Higher prices for diesel could lead to a fuel surcharge by trucking companies, which could bleed through to the price of goods, since virtually every item in Americans’ homes were on a truck at some point.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 3 Feb. 2025
  • If both measures are approved, Edison customers will have a roughly 2% surcharge on their bills for the next 30 years, according to regulatory documents.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Other company leaders voiced their concerns about the threat of tariffs ahead of Saturday’s order.
    Kristian Burt, CNBC, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Trump's threat to impose a 25 percent tariff on goods from Mexico and 10 percent tariffs on goods from China could also take effect Saturday.
    Ewan Palmer, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Stock market impact News of the Chinese app caused a drop in the tech-heavy Nasdaq and a huge impact on chipmaker Nvidia, which initially lost $600 billion in market value.
    Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Microsoft and Apple are reporting results this week, and Nvidia suffered its worst day in almost five years and a history-making loss in market value on Monday — unreleated to earnings results.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025

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“Service charge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/service%20charge. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.

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