Meaning

8 senses
  1. A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.

  2. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

    The war has taken its toll on the people.

    Verluste

    поте́риpotéri, же́ртвыžértvy

    втра́тиvtráty, же́ртвиžértvy

  3. A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.

    toll ore refining; toll manufacturing

  4. (broadly)A fee for using any kind of material processing service.

    We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.

    Abgabe, Maut

    пла́таpláta, сборsbor, по́шлинаpóšlina

    доро́жній збірdoróžnij zbir, збірzbir, опла́таopláta

  5. (US)A tollbooth.

    We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.

  6. The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.

    звонzvon, бла́говестblágovest

    the sound of a bell being struck

  7. (UK, obsolete)A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

  8. (England, obsolete, regional)A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Examples

79 sentences
  1. The exact death toll is unknown.

    ruТочное число погибших неизвестно. — marafon

  2. Call us toll-free for help.

  3. The death toll could rise significantly.

  4. How often do you use toll roads?

    ruКак часто вы пользуетесь платными дорогами? — odexed

  5. This bridge was originally a toll bridge.

    ruПроезд по этому мосту изначально был платным. — odexed

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
loss or damage:
fee for using roads and bridges:
Русский
By meaning 3
loss or damage:
fee for using roads and bridges:
act or sound of tolling:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
loss or damage:
fee for using roads and bridges:

Origin

From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty

From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“calculation, fraud”).

Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by toil

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Forms

plural: tolls
Singulartoll
Pluraltolls

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the sound of a bell being struck:bell
  • value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something:pricecost

Word family

24 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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