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   toll

   /təʊl/

   noun

   • 1. a charge payable to use a bridge or road: "motorway tolls" Similar chargefeepaymentlevytariffduestaxdutyimpost
   • ▪ a charge for a long-distance telephone call. North American
   • 2. the number of deaths or casualties arising from a natural disaster, conflict, accident, etc.: "the toll of dead and injured mounted" Similar numbercounttallytotalrunning totalsum totalgrand totalsumscorereckoningenumerationregisterrecordinventorylistlistingaccountrollrosterindexdirectory
   • ▪ the adverse effect of something: "the environmental toll of the policy has been high" Similar adverse effect(s)undesirable consequence(s)detrimentharmdamageinjuryhurtcostpricelossdisadvantagesufferingpenalty

   verb

   • 1. charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road): "the transport minister opposes tolling existing roads"

   Word Origin 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’. toll1 (sense 2 of the noun) (late 19th century) arose from the notion of paying a toll or tribute in human lives (to an adversary or to death).

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