Toll

Quick meaning: Toll is a noun meaning Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

Meaning

Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

More Meanings

1. A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
2. (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
3. (US) A tollbooth.
4. (UK, law, obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
5. (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
6. 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.
7. (obsolete, regional England) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Example Sentences

toll ore refining; toll manufacturing

The war has taken its toll on the people.

No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.

Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.

Word Forms

• tolls
• tolling
• tolled
• tole

Synonyms for toll

Depending on context, synonyms include bait, lure, peal, cost, price.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include peal, cost, price, death, casualty, mortality.

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