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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

The key to attracting online revenue, I think, is to come up with an iTunes-easy method of micropayment.

From Time Magazine Archive

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