dues
Example Sentences
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There’s a culture of paying dues in stand-up comedy.
From Los Angeles Times
Members say their annual dues of about $700 are still worth it.
“I know I have to pay my dues,” she says, “but it’s difficult finding a job that uses my degree in the way I imagined.”
That big-labor bosses favor Democratic candidates isn’t news, but some unionized workers might be interested—and startled—to learn how much of their dues money is going to politics.
Peasants burned châteaux and records of the dues they owed local nobles.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
