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HSK
free (of charge)
HSK 4
to consume (goods and services, resources etc)
HSK 3
funds / expenditure / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 5
tuition fee / tuition / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to pay / to cover the costs
HSK 7-9
to pay a fee
HSK 3
to waste / to squander
HSK 3
to charge a fee
HSK 3
expense / cost / to spend (time or money) / expenditure
HSK 6
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  *費* | 費* | *費
to cost / to spend / fee / wasteful / expenses
HSK 3
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
road maintenance tax (China)
labor cost
at public expense
HSK 7-9
tip / gratuity
HSK 6
transport costs
at one's own expense / self-funded
HSK 7-9
child support payment (after a divorce)
HSK 7-9
service charge / processing fee / commission
HSK 6
insurance fee
to waste / to spend / to consume / to squander
HSK 7-9
admission fee
management fee
HSK 7-9
to waste (one's energy etc)
insurance premium
to waste / to squander
call charge
HSK 7-9
service charge / cover charge
appearance fee
author's remuneration / CL: 筆|笔
connection charge
room charge
(telephony) long-distance call charge
low level of spending; small expenditure
excessive consumption; spending beyond one's means
food expenses / board expenses / meals (cost)
overtime pay
facilitation payment / bribe
business travel expenses
to spend (money or time)
water bill
"three public expenditures" of the PRC government, i.e. air travel, food and entertainment, and public vehicles
postage
transfer fee / signing bonus / sign-on bonus
shipping / sea transport
annual fee
medical fees
money settlement (fine or payment to end a legal dispute)
passenger fare
personnel expenditure (accountancy)
to pay a fee
HSK 7-9
severance pay (Tw)
toll (fee for using a road)
travel expenses / money for a voyage / toll
a kind act that costs nothing
Tenerife
medical expenses
service charge; service fee
extravagance and waste (idiom)
alimony / child support / maintenance allowance
prepayment
property management fee
incidental costs / sundries / extras
corkage fee
demurrage (shipping)
outward freight (accountancy)
Employment Stability Fee (Taiwan), a minimum monthly fee for employing foreign workers
to be in arrears / to be out of credit / amount owing
military expenditure
government funded / paid by state stipend
a gift of money given by parents on both sides after a wedding, to their new daughter-in-law or son-in-law
to waste (one's breath, one's energy etc) / to try in vain
tax; levy; duty
travel expenses / fare / traveling allowance
to waste / to squander
publishing fee; page charge
membership dues
airport construction fee (abbr. for 機場建設費|机场建设费)
deductible (the part of an insurance claim paid by the insured) / (UK English) excess
registration fee
air freight (cost of air transport)
freight fee
bonding fee
to waste / to squander
funeral expenses
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  *費* | 費* | *費
surname Fei
surcharge
party membership dues
travel expenses
hush money
house call fee / callout fee
traffic congestion fee
signing bonus / sign-on bonus
corkage fee
severance pay
remittance fee
maintenance costs
compensation
key money; takeover fee paid to a previous tenant when assuming their lease or business (originally Cantonese)

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