tollnoun
uk/təʊl/us/toʊl/toll noun (CHARGE)
C1 [ C ] a small amount of money that you have to pay to use a road, cross a bridge, etc.:
Tolls are now collected electronically on most motorways.
[ C ] US the money a long-distance phone call costs:
Is Bayonne a toll call (= a more expensive phone call) from New York?
More examples
- The toll of bankruptcies was rising daily.
- The toll of babies born with AIDS is rising.
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On the road: driving & operating road vehicles
- aquaplaning
- back sth up
- boxed in
- bump start
- bus driver
- car seat
- carve
- corner
- dip
- driver
- driving
- foot
- hold the road idiom
- manoeuvring
- motor
- motorist
- mph
- pull away
- scorch
- turning circle
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Taxation
Bills & invoices
Communications - by telephone
toll noun (SUFFERING)
C2 [ U ] suffering, deaths, or damage:
Independent sources say that the death toll from the earthquake runs into thousands.
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- deceased
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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Injuring and injuries
Damaging and spoiling
Idiom(s)
take its/a toll
tollverb [ I or T ]
uk/təʊl/us/toʊl/to (cause a large bell to) ring slowly and repeatedly:
In the distance, a church bell tolled the hour (= showed the time by ringing).
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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- clash
- crackling
- ding
- ding-a-ling
- ding-dong
- fizz
- hoot
- jangling
- knock
- pip
- rasp
- ringer
- rumbling
- sing
- slam
- swish
- thud
- twang
- whine
- whistle
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