toll
IPA: tˈoʊɫ
noun
- 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.
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
- (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- (US) A tollbooth.
- (UK, law, obsolete) 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.
- The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- (transitive) To take as a toll.
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
- (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.
- (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- (transitive, obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag.
- (transitive) To tear in pieces.
- (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
- (law, obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
- (law) To suspend.
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