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Complete Definition of "toll"

see|töll|Tõll
English

Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-əʊl|-əʊl

Pronunciation 1
RP IPA|/təʊl/ or /tɒl/
(General) IPA|/tɒʊl/ or /tɒl/

Noun
en-noun

  1. A fee for using something, esp. of roads and bridges
  2. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster

#:the war has taken its toll on the people

Derived terms
death toll
toll road
toll bridge
toll booth
tollgate

Translations

Chinese: 通行費, 通行费 (tōngxíng fèi)
Dutch: tol f
French: péage m
German: Abgabe f
Greek: φόρος (fóros) m
Hebrew: אגרה (agra) f
Italian: tributo m
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Japanese: 通行料 (tsūkōryō)
Korean: 통행세 (tonghaengse)
Old English: toll#Old English|toll n
Portuguese: pedágio m
Russian: пошлина (póšlina) f
Spanish: peaje m

Pronunciation 2
RP IPA|/təʊl/
(General) IPA|/tɒʊl/

Noun
en-noun

  1. The act or sound of tolling

Verb
en-verb

  1. To make the noise of a bell

#:For whom the bell tolls.

  1. To ring a bell slowly and repeatedly
  2. To announce by tolling

#:The bells tolled the King’s death.
#legal To suspend
#:The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant|defendant’s wrongful conduct.

Translations
;to make the noise of a bell
Chinese: 敲 (qiāo)
Czech: zvonit
French: sonner
German: läuten
Italian: suonare
Portuguese: anunciar
Russian: позвонить (pozvonít’)
Spanish: tocar


Catalan

Noun
toll

  1. pool

Category:Catalan nouns


German

Etymology
Old High German tol

Adjective
toll

  1. crazy

See also
cool#German|cool
geil

Category:German adjectives


Hungarian

Noun
toll

  1. feather
  2. pen

Category:Hungarian nouns


Irish

Verb
toll

  1. to bore

Category:Irish verbs


Old English

Etymology
Borrowed into Germanic (*tolla-) from vulgar Latin toloneum, from late Latin teloneum, from Greek τελώνιον ‘toll-house’, from τέλος ‘tax’. Germanic cognates include Old Saxon tol (Dutch tol), Old High German zol (German Zoll), Old Norse tollr (Swedish tull). See also parallel forms represented by Old English toln.

Pronunciation
IPA|/tol:/

Noun
toll n

  1. tax, toll, fare

Category:Old English nouns

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