Charge - Fee - Rent - Fine - Fare - Toll - Rental
These are all words for an amount of money that is charged or paid for sth.
Rate a fixed amount of money that is asked or paid for sth: A low hourly rate of pay. | Interest rates.
Charge an amount of money that is asked for goods or services: An admission charge.
Fee (rather formal) an amount of money that you have to pay for professional advice or services, to go to a school or college, or to join an organization: Legal fees. | An annual membership fee.
Rent an amount of money that you regularly have to pay for use of a building or room. In American English, rent can be used to mean rental: The weekly rent on the car was over $300.
Fine a sum of money that must be paid as punishment for breaking a law or rule: A parking fine.
Fare the money that you pay to travel by bus, plane, taxi, etc.
Toll an amount of money that you have to pay to use a particular road or bridge.
Rental an amount of money that you have to pay to use sth for a particular period of time.
RENT OR RENTAL?
In British English rent is only money paid to use a building or room: for other items use rental. In American English rent can be used for both, but rental is still more common for other items.
PATTERNS
*(a) rate/charge/fee/rent/fine/fare/toll/rental for sth
*(a) rate/charge/fee/rent/toll/rental on sth
*at a rate/charge/fee/rent/fare/rental of...
*for a charge/fee
*to pay (a) rate/charge/fee/rent/fine/fare/toll/rental
*to charge (a) rate/fee/rent/fare/toll/rental
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