congestion chargenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/kənˈdʒes.tʃən ˌtʃɑːdʒ/us/kənˈdʒes.tʃən ˌtʃɑːrdʒ/UKan amount of money that you have to pay each day to drive into a city centre, charged in order to reduce traffic
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Paying money
- ante
- chargeable
- demurrage
- disburse
- discharge
- expense
- fork
- fork out sth
- good-faith
- overspend
- pay up
- payee
- put sth down 1
- repayable
- self-financing
- sink
- spring
- square
- tip
- worth
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Examples from literature
- Computers check if the drivers paid the congestion charge.
- One answer is a congestion charge – money that you pay to drive in a city.