surcharge
Example Sentences
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Postal Service will impose its first-ever surcharge on packages to cover the rising cost of fuel, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Fuel accounts for between a quarter and a third of the operating costs of airlines, and some have already begun to pass along the higher costs to consumers by adding surcharges or hiking fares.
From Barron's
Delta added fuel surcharges to international routes and raised base fares for domestic flights in the past couple of weeks, Esposito said.
From MarketWatch
Hagerling says he is now trying to focus on driving for customers that are willing to pay a surcharge to cover at least some of the extra fuel cost.
“We update our fuel surcharges weekly based on the current fuel price,” he says.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.