licence fee

基本解釋

His team at Stanford developed a Wi-Fi antenna for a client who did not want to pay a patent-licence fee to Cisco Systems.
他在斯坦福大學(xué)的研究小組為開(kāi)發(fā)出了一種無(wú)線高保真（Wi-Fi）天線，而這位客戶不愿向Cisco系統(tǒng)公司支付專利權(quán)許可費(fèi)。
Unlike the BBC, which is financed by a licence fee paid by British viewers, the other networks, even state-owned Channel 4, had to live by selling advertising space.
BBC和其他電視網(wǎng)絡(luò)商不同，前者經(jīng)費(fèi)由英國(guó)電視觀眾所支付的許可使用費(fèi)提供；而后者，就算是國(guó)有的第四臺(tái)，也必須靠出售廣告位營(yíng)生。
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The BBC World Service is currently funded by a grant from the Foreign Office, in contrast to the domestic BBC, which is funded by an annual licence fee payable by viewers in Britain.
英國(guó)廣播公司現(xiàn)在的國(guó)際廣播部門其資金來(lái)源于英國(guó)外交部的撥款，相比之下其國(guó)內(nèi)產(chǎn)品則是來(lái)源于英國(guó)國(guó)內(nèi)觀眾每年所交的電視年費(fèi)。

And a licence fee to enter a market is most definitely a sunk cost.
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