Credit Card Glossary: Terms and Definitions
Annual fee
An annual (yearly) fee charged by a credit card company each year for use of a credit card. This is a separate fee from interest rate on purchases. While annual fees were once common, they largely disappeared in the ’80s and ’90s, remaining only on a few classes of cards, such as secured cards or those that offer airline frequent flyer miles as a reward. Compare no-annual-fee credit cards.
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