- [countable] money that you pay to use a particular road or bridge
- motorway tolls
- a toll bridge
- the possibility of imposing tolls on some motorways
Wordfindersee also e-tollTopics Transport by car or lorryc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- highway
- motorway
- road
- …
- charge
- collect
- exact
- …
- bridge
- highway
- motorway
- …
- [countable, usually singular] the amount of damage or the number of deaths and injuries that are caused in a particular war, disaster, etc.
- the war’s growing casualty toll
- Every hour, the news bulletin reported the mounting toll of casualties.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- devastating
- enormous
- great
- …
- exact
- take
- estimate
- …
- mount
- rise
- reach something
- …
- toll on
- bring the toll to
- put the toll at
- [singular] the sound of a bell ringing with slow, regular sounds
- [countable] (North American English) a charge for a phone call that is calculated at a higher rate than a local callTopics Phones, email and the internetc2
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 2 and noun sense 4 Old English (denoting a charge, tax, or duty), from medieval Latin toloneum, alteration of late Latin teloneum, from Greek telōnion ‘toll house’, from telos ‘tax’. Sense (2) (late 19th cent.) arose from the notion of paying a toll or tribute in human lives (to an adversary or to death). noun sense 3 late Middle English: probably a special use of dialect toll ‘drag, pull’.
Idioms
See toll in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee toll in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishtake a heavy toll (on somebody/something) | take its toll (on somebody/something)
- to have a bad effect on somebody/something; to cause a lot of damage, deaths, pain, etc.
- Illness had taken a heavy toll on her.
- The recession is taking its toll on the housing markets.
- The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll.
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