toll
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
“The war has taken its toll on the people.”
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”
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.”
Verb 4 meanings
To impose a fee for the use of.
“Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.”
To levy a toll on (someone or something).
To take as a toll.
To pay a toll or tallage.
Etymology
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”).
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TOLL at a glance
TOLL has 4 letters and scores 4 points in Scrabble (T 1 + O 1 + L 1 + L 1) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,204 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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