(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a sum of money that you pay to be allowed to do something.
He hadn’t paid his television licence ~.
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2.
A ~ is the amount of money that a person or organization is paid for a particular job or service that they provide.
Find out how much your surveyor’s and solicitor’s ~s will be.
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