WordNet
licensing fee
n. a fee paid to the government for the privilege of being licensed to do something (as selling liquor or practicing medicine) [syn: license fee, license tax]
Usage examples of "licensing fee".
The guys who sang in the subway made more money, but they had to pay a hundred bucks a year to the Toronto Transit Commission for a licensing fee and move from station to station according to a schedule that came down from the head office.
The gang did allow some rank-and-file members to sell heroin on its turf but accepted a fixed licensing fee in lieu of a share of profits.
I dumped my old suit in my 'factory last night, and now I've got a genuine Armani for a five dollar licensing fee.
It seems he'd been using me as an apprentice without paying the licensing fee for quite some time.