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micropayment

British  
/ ˈmaɪkrəʊˌpeɪmənt /

noun

  1. a system whereby a user pays a small fee to access a specific area of a website

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A. You could program a micropayment and send a very small amount of money to someone.

From Fox News Dec. 7, 2021

If, however, the air conditioner had a sensor to measure inside and outside temperatures, the sprinkler system could pay a micropayment to the air conditioner every time it needed to cool down the front lawn.

From Slate Jun. 19, 2018

Next year, ICM plans to introduce a proprietary micropayment system.

From BusinessWeek Jun. 21, 2012

However, the bundle offers not just a micropayment version of sea monkeys to watch bobbing up and down, but also four indie games.

From Forbes Jun. 14, 2012

There are also competing micropayment schemes in the works, like Trivnet, which automatically lumps your e-commerce bill into your phone or Internet-service-provider bill on a monthly basis.

From Time Magazine Archive

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