toll

noun

/təʊl/

Idioms

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[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
Synonyms rate
rate
- charge
- fee
- rent
- fine
- fare
- toll
- rental
These are all words for an amount of money that is charged or paid for something.
- rate a fixed amount of money that is asked or paid for something:
  a low hourly rate of pay
  interest rates
- charge an amount of money that is asked for goods or services:
  an admission charge
- fee (rather formal) an amount of money that you have to pay for professional advice or services, to go to a school or college, or to join an organization:
  legal fees
  an annual membership fee
- rent an amount of money that you regularly have to pay for use of a building or room. In American English, rent can be used to mean rental: The weekly rent on the car was over $300.
- fine a sum of money that must be paid as punishment for breaking a law or rule:
  a parking fine
- fare the money that you pay to travel by bus, plane, taxi, etc.
- toll an amount of money that you have to pay to use a particular road or bridge.
- rental an amount of money that you have to pay to use something for a particular period of time.
rent or rental?In British English rent is only money paid to use a building or room: for other items use rental. In American English rent can be used for both, but rental is still more common for other items.Patterns
- (a) rate/charge/fee/rent/fine/fare/toll/rental for something
- (a) rate/charge/fee/rent/toll/rental on something
- at a rate/charge/fee/rent/fare/rental of…
- for a charge/fee
- to pay (a) rate/charge/fee/rent/fine/fare/toll/rental
- to charge (a) rate/fee/rent/fare/toll/rental
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- clamp
- cone
- contraflow
- pedestrian
- roadworks
- speed hump
- tailback
- toll
- traffic
- zebra crossing
see also e-tollTopics Transport by car or lorryc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- highway
- motorway
- road
- …
verb + toll
- charge
- collect
- exact
- …
toll + noun
- bridge
- highway
- motorway
- …
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[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.
see also death tollTopics The environmentc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- devastating
- enormous
- great
- …
verb + toll
- exact
- take
- estimate
- …
toll + verb
- mount
- rise
- reach something
- …
preposition
- toll on
phrases
- bring the toll to
- put the toll at
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[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

take 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.

toll

verb

/təʊl/

[intransitive, transitive]

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they toll	/təʊl/ /təʊl/
he / she / it tolls	/təʊlz/ /təʊlz/
past simple tolled	/təʊld/ /təʊld/
past participle tolled	/təʊld/ /təʊld/
-ing form tolling	/ˈtəʊlɪŋ/ /ˈtəʊlɪŋ/

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when a bell tolls or somebody tolls it, it is rung slowly many times, especially as a sign that somebody has died
- toll (for somebody) The Abbey bell tolled for those killed in the war.
- Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- toll something The bell tolled the hour.
- (figurative) The revolution tolled the death knell (= signalled the end) for the Russian monarchy.
Word Originverb late Middle English: probably a special use of dialect toll ‘drag, pull’.