docking fee
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3.8
- noun
:
tarifa de atraque
- We paid the docking fees all winter.
Examples
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"Ask him why the Baroness is behind on her docking fees," he said.
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Not to mention docking fees.
Fiction book (1991) -
Travelers arriving via private watercraft are charged docking fees.
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We can pick up the packet in the agency's office on the way, when we pay our docking fees.
Synonyms
A fee for a boat to use a dock
A fee for using a place at a port where ships load and unload
A fee paid for keeping a boat at a dock
A fee for using a dock to load, unload, or store cargo
A fee ships pay to drop anchor in a port
A fee paid to pass a boat through a canal lock
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a charge paid for the use of a dock by a vessel' is directly and transparently derived from 'docking' (securing a vessel at a dock) + 'fee' (a payment for a service). This straightforward noun+noun compositional pattern is common in English and across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase docking fee comes from the image of a boat docking and then paying a fee to use space at the dock. So today it means 'a charge for using a dock'.