surcharge
B1CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
An additional charge or tax imposed on top of an existing liability.
Late filers incurred a surcharge of five per cent on the outstanding balance.
Business noun
An extra fee added on top of the base price, often for paying by a particular method.
The airline slapped a two percent surcharge on credit-card bookings, so she paid by debit instead.
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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