origination fee

1. 1.

   a fee charged to a borrower (especially for a mortgage loan) to cover the costs of initiating the loan

   Broaderfee

Questions about origination fee

What does origination fee mean?

origination fee means "a fee charged to a borrower (especially for a mortgage loan) to cover the costs of initiating the loan".

Is origination fee a common word?

origination fee is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.