service charge
A2CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law phrase
A payment made by a tenant to cover the landlord's costs of maintaining the common parts and structure.
The service charge has risen sharply this year to fund major works to the roof.
Business noun
A payment by occupiers toward the cost of maintaining and running the common parts of a building.
Tenants disputed the service charge after the landlord replaced the entire cladding system.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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