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Toll

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Noun

1. toll

a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)

2. cost, price, toll

value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

Example Sentences:
'the cost in human life was enormous'
'the price of success is hard work'
'what price glory?'

3. bell, toll

the sound of a bell being struck

Example Sentences:
'saved by the bell'
'she heard the distant toll of church bells'

Verb

4. toll

ring slowly

Example Sentences:
'For whom the bell tolls'

5. toll

charge a fee for using

Example Sentences:
'Toll the bridges into New York City'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Toll

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verb
1. 
to ring or cause to ring slowly and recurrently
2. (transitive)
to summon, warn, or announce by tolling
3. US and Canadian
to decoy (game, esp ducks)
noun
4. 
the act or sound of tolling
noun
1. 
a. 
an amount of money levied, esp for the use of certain roads, bridges, etc, to cover the cost of maintenance
b. 
(as modifier)
toll road
2. 
loss or damage incurred through an accident, disaster, etc
the war took its toll of the inhabitants
3. Also called: tollage
(formerly) the right to levy a toll
4. Also called: toll charge New Zealand
a charge for a telephone call beyond a free-dialling area

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Toll

see synonyms of toll
noun
1. 
a tax or charge for a privilege, esp. for permission to pass over a bridge, along a highway, etc.
2. 
a charge for service or extra service, as for transportation, for a long-distance telephone call, or, formerly, for having one's grain milled
3. 
the number lost, taken, exacted, etc.; exaction
the tornado took a heavy toll of lives
verb intransitive
4.  Rare
to collect a toll or tolls
verb transitive Rare
5. 
to take or gather as a toll
6. 
to impose a toll on
verb transitive
1.  Chiefly Dialectal
to allure or entice; esp., to decoy (game, etc.)
2. 
a. 
to ring (a church bell, etc.) slowly with regularly repeated strokes, esp. for announcing a death
b. 
to sound (the hour, a knell, etc.) by this
c. 
to announce, summon, or dismiss by this
d. 
to announce the death of (someone) in this way
verb intransitive
3. 
to sound or ring slowly in regularly repeated strokes
said of a bell
noun
4. 
the act of tolling a bell
5. 
the sound of a bell tolling
6. 
a single stroke of the bell

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Toll

see synonyms of toll
n.
1. A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
2. A charge for a service, such as a telephone call to another country.
3. An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property: "Poverty and inadequate health care take their toll on the quality of a community's health" (Los Angeles Times).
tr.v. tolled, toll·ing, tolls
1. To exact as a toll.
2. To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).
v. tolled, toll·ing, tolls
v.tr.
1. To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.
2. To announce or summon by tolling.
v.intr.
To sound in slowly repeated single tones.
n.
1. The act of tolling.
2. The sound of a bell being struck.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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