toll

CEFRB1

/təʊl/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A charge for using a road, bridge, or tunnel.

  2. 02

    noun

    The number of people killed or harmed in an event.

Examples

  • The death toll from the hurricane climbed to 200.

  • The missile attack took a heavy toll of lives.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • [t(ʰ)əʊ̯ɫ]
  • [t(ʰ)oːɫ]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

  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.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To ring a bell slowly and repeatedly.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

  • toll ore refining; toll manufacturing

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“calculation, fraud”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tol (“toll”), Dutch tol (“toll”), German Zoll (“toll, duty, customs”), Danish told (“toll, duty, tariff”), Swedish tull (“toll, customs”), Icelandic tollur (“toll, customs”). More at tell, tale. Alternate etymology derives Old English toll from Medieval Latin tolōneum, tolōnium, alteration (due to the Germanic forms above) of Latin telōneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telṓnion, “toll-...