English dictionary
toll
nounPronunciation
/toʊl/
/tɒl/
/toʊɫ/
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- A tollbooth.
- A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
- A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
verb
- To impose a fee for the use of.
- To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- To take as a toll.
- To pay a toll or tallage.
noun
- The act or sound of tolling
verb
- To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- To summon by ringing a bell.
- To announce by tolling.
verb
- To draw; pull; tug; drag.
- To tear in pieces.
- To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
verb
- To take away; to vacate; to annul.
- To suspend.
Example sentences
The war has taken its toll on the people.
We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.
We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.
Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.
The bells tolled the King’s death.
Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady"
The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.