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Discover LudwigThe phrase "automatic fee" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a charge that is applied automatically, often without the need for manual intervention, such as in billing or subscription services.
Example: "The subscription service includes an automatic fee that will be charged to your account each month."
Alternatives: "recurring charge" or "automated charge".
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We had cheap international calls but a high "flag-fall", which is the automatic fee when a call connects.
Because health expenditures continue to exceed targeted levels, the S.G.R. formula would trigger automatic fee reductions — currently amounting to almost a 25 percent payment cut to Medicare physician payments on Jan . 1 2014, if nothing is done.
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A credit card reform bill that makes it harder to raise rates on existing balances and prevents certain automatic fees flew through Congress and was signed by President Obama in late May.
But many major hotels have already begun to distance themselves from the practice of tacking on to their guests' bills automatic fees that were not part of the initial rate.
Under the terms of its settlement, the company agreed to clearly and conspicuously disclose any automatic fees, such as resort service charges and transportation surcharges, when a reservation was made.
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has said there should be an end to the automatic fees paid by some union members to Labour.
There were echoes of Tony Blair's brave assault on clause IV in Miliband's speech banishing the automatic affiliation fee paid by 3 million union members to Labour.
Ed Miliband has pledged to end the automatic "affiliation" fee paid by three million union members to Labour.
An automatic "affiliation" fee - worth £8m a year to Labour in total - is currently paid by three million union members.
The party leader will pledge to abolish the automatic "affiliation" fee paid by three million union members to Labour.
The Labour leader wants to abolish the automatic affiliation fee paid each year by about three million union members to Labour.
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