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- Dictionarytoll/təʊl/
noun
- 1. a charge payable to use a bridge or road: "motorway tolls" Similar
- 2. the number of deaths or casualties arising from a natural disaster, conflict, accident, etc.: "the toll of dead and injured mounted" Similar
verb
- 1. charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road): "the transport minister opposes tolling existing roads"
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an amount of money that you have to pay to travel along some main roads, to cross bridges, etc., or to make telephone calls over long distances: They’re raising the bridge toll to $5.00. The number you dialed is a toll call – please deposit an additional fifty cents.
The meaning of TOLL is a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge). How to use toll in a sentence.
A toll is a total number of deaths, accidents, or disasters that occur in a particular period of time.
1. a payment or fee exacted, as by the state, 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.
Definition of toll noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
When a fee is charged for the privilege of driving on a road or crossing a bridge, it's called a toll. Another kind of toll is the charge to make a long distance telephone call. Occasionally, toll refers to a different kind of cost — a loss of human life: the human toll of an earthquake or war.
noun. 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. the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity: The toll was 300 persons dead or missing.
