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.
他在斯坦福大學的研究小組為開發(fā)出了一種無線高保真（Wi-Fi）天線，而這位客戶不愿向Cisco系統(tǒng)公司支付專利權許可費。
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)絡商不同，前者經(jīng)費由英國電視觀眾所支付的許可使用費提供；而后者，就算是國有的第四臺，也必須靠出售廣告位營生。
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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.
英國廣播公司現(xiàn)在的國際廣播部門其資金來源于英國外交部的撥款，相比之下其國內(nèi)產(chǎn)品則是來源于英國國內(nèi)觀眾每年所交的電視年費。

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