carrying charge
noun [C]Definition
› (also carrying cost) ACCOUNTING a charge added when you buy goods by making regular small payments for them until the full amount owed has been paid: If you pay off your credit card balance every month, you don't have to worry about carrying charges.
› TRANSPORT an amount charged for transporting goods: The canals were forced to lower their coal carrying charges.
(Definition of carrying charge noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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