A nightly surcharge imposed by hotels on top of the usual rate, nominally to cover the cost of certain amenities.

(law, chiefly attributive) A form of lawsuit for which the hired legal representative charges no fees to the plaintiff if the plaintiff does not win.

(historical) An annual tax of one penny on every hearth, collected in England and Ireland and sent to Rome, from the beginning of the tenth century until it was abolished by Henry VIII.

(feudal law) The fee of a knight; specifically, the amount of land that imposed the obligation of knight service upon the landholder, being sometimes a hide or less, sometimes six or more hides.

Alternative form of fee splitting

(business) The practice, usually of questionable ethicality, by some professionals, such as medical doctors and lawyers, of sending a client to a second practitioner for an additional consultation in order to obtain another payment from the client or from his or her insurer, and in return for which the original practitioner receives a portion of the payment made to the second practitioner (a "commission" or "piece of the action").

synonym of handling charge

(cryptocurrencies) A fee levied on users of the Ethereum network to compensate for the computing energy required to process and validate transactions.

(archaic) The fat that falls from meat being roasted; drippings.

A service charge.