Definition of "royalties" []

• Plural form of royalty. (noun)

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• "I wonder which oil company Al Gore will blame for the fact that he 'received more than $500,000 in royalties from the owners of zinc mines who held mineral leases on his farm near Carthage, Tennessee' and that 'Before the mines closed in 2003, they emitted thousands of pounds of toxic substances and several times, the water discharged from the mines into nearby rivers had levels of toxins above what was legal'?"
• "But the Swedish startup has been particularly insistent on coming to the U.S. market with a freemium, not paid-only, model. told the U. K.'s Telegraph last week that the company is paying the label royalties per user in only two countries, the U.K. and Spain."
• "In the wake of the BP spill, the Obama administration overhauled the Minerals Management Service, renaming it the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and separating its conflicting responsibilities for both policing the oil and gas industry and collecting billions in royalties from it."