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Definitions for Toll

[1] a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge.
[2] the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity: The toll was 300 persons dead or missing.
[3] a tax, duty, or tribute, as for services or use of facilities.
[4] a payment made for a long-distance telephone call.
[5] (formerly, in England) the right to take such payment.
[6] a compensation for services, as for transportation or transmission.
[7] grain retained by a miller in payment for grinding.
[8] to collect (something) as toll.
[9] to impose a tax or toll on (a person).
[10] to collect toll; levy toll.
[11] to cause (a large bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for summoning a congregation to church, or especially for announcing a death.
[12] to sound or strike (a knell, the hour, etc.) by such strokes: In the distance Big Ben tolled five.
[13] to announce by this means; ring a knell for (a dying or dead person).
[14] to summon or dismiss by tolling.
[15] to lure or decoy (game) by arousing curiosity.
[16] to allure; entice: He tolls us on with fine promises.
[17] to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as a bell.
[18] the act of tolling a bell.
[19] one of the strokes made in tolling a bell.
[20] the sound made.
[21] to suspend or interrupt (as a statute of limitations).
[22] to ring or cause to ring slowly and recurrently
[23] (tr) to summon, warn, or announce by tolling
[24] US and Canadian to decoy (game, esp ducks)
[25] the act or sound of tolling
[26] an amount of money levied, esp for the use of certain roads, bridges, etc, to cover the cost of maintenance (as modifier ) toll road ; toll bridge
[27] loss or damage incurred through an accident, disaster, etc the war took its toll of the inhabitants
[28] Also called: tollage (formerly) the right to levy a toll
[29] Also called: toll charge NZ a charge for a telephone call beyond a free-dialling area

Words related to Toll

levy, price, tax, rate, cost, expense, tariff, payment, loss, clang, duty, exaction, customs, charge, demand, impost, assessment, tribute, penalty, inroad

Words nearby Toll

toleware, tolidine, tolima, tolkien, tolkien, j. r. r., toll, toll bar, toll bridge, toll call, toll collector, toll line

Origin of Toll

31425–75; late Middle English tollen to remove, legally annul < Anglo-French tolre, tol(l)er < Latin tollere to remove, take away

Word origin for Toll

Old English toln; related to Old Frisian tolene, Old High German zol toll, from Late Latin telōnium customs house, from Greek telónion, ultimately from telos tax

Synonyms for Toll

cost, expense, levy, payment, price, rate, tariff, tax, assessment, charge, customs, demand, duty, exaction, impost, tribute