corkage

/kˈɔːkɪd‍ʒ/

/kˈɔːɹkɪdʒ/

[noun]

corkage

[NOUN]

an amount of money charged by a restaurant for drinking a wine that was bought from somewhere else by the customer

Examples

1. An American living in the Southeast Asian country wasn’t happy with being charged a $15 corkage fee at a beach resort in Koh Chang, so he did what any thumb-happy traveler would do and wrote a negative TripAdvisor review.

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