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in-lieu fee

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

Syllables
in--lieu fee
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A payment made by developers or project proponents to a government agency or non-profit organization instead of fulfilling regulatory requirements directly on-site, such as environmental mitigation, affordable housing, or infrastructure improvements.

Inflected Forms

in-lieu fees (plural)

Questions

What does in-lieu fee mean?
A payment made by developers or project proponents to a government agency or non-profit organization instead of fulfilling regulatory requirements directly on-site, such as environmental mitigation, affordable housing, or infrastructure improvements.

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