Toll

/təʊl/ · noun

Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.

The war has taken its toll on the people.

toll ore refining; toll manufacturing

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

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

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

No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.

I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him.

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Antonyms for toll

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Word Forms

• tolls
• tolling
• tolled
• tole
• toal

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