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licence fee(US license fee) noun1A fee paid to an organization for permission to own, use, or do something: street traders in Coventry could have their licence fees reduced by 75 per cent...- The Performing Rights Society for Music are a non-profit organisation which collects licence fees for public performances.
- To celebrate the episode, the ABC network surprised gay couples who were getting married at New York's City Hall by paying their marriage licence fees.
- The annual renewable taxi licence fee will be set at $22,000 in metropolitan zones.
1.1(In the UK) an annual fee, used to finance the BBC, which is payable by each household in which television programmes are watched: MPs are considering scrapping the licence fee and replacing it with a subscription system...- The call to arms comes as it's claimed the channel can't survive with just the licence fee as funding.
- The BBC Trust is the governing body of the BBC and is tasked with ensuring it provides value for money to licence fee payers.
- The BBC is too big and should lose some of its licence fee, the Corporation's former head of TV news has warned.
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