Meaning of toll | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. 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.
3. The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
4. To sound in slowly repeated single tones.
5. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
6. To give forth or cause to give forth a clear, resonant sound:bong, chime, knell, peal, ring, strike.
7. A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
8. to ring (a bell) slowly. The church bell tolled solemnly. lui, stadig lui يَدُق звъня dobrar vyzvánět läuten ringe χτυπώ πένθιμα (για καμπάνα) tañer, doblar kella lööma, helisema به صدا درآمدن soida sonner לְצַלצֵל राहदारी zvoniti harangoz; szól membunyikan lonceng hringja (klukku/bjöllu) hægt og hátíðlega suonare 鳴らす 종을 (오랫동안) 울리다 skambėti zvanīt (par zvanu) membunyikan luidenringedzwonić وروو روزنګ وهل، ټلۍ وهل: خبرول ( دږغ په واسطه ) ټنګېدل، كړنګېدل ( دږغ په واسطه ) ټنګېدل، كړنګېدل: كړنګها...
9. A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
   broadly
10. A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
11. A tollbooth.
    US
12. A charge for a service, such as a telephone call to another country.
13. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
    UK, obsolete
14. An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property: "Poverty and inadequate health care take their toll on the quality of a community's health" (Los Angeles Times).
15. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
    England, obsolete, regional
16. To exact as a toll.
17. To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).
18. To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.
19. To announce or summon by tolling.

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Examples

“Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.”

“The war has taken its toll on the people.”

“toll ore refining; toll manufacturing”

“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.”

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