TOLL Definition & Meaning | 亚洲网紅露点

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toll

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noun

a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge.
the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity:
The toll was 300 persons dead or missing.
a tax, duty, or tribute, as for services or use of facilities.
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a payment made for a long-distance telephone call.
(formerly, in England) the right to take such payment.
a compensation for services, as for transportation or transmission.
grain retained by a miller in payment for grinding.

verb (used with object)

to collect (something) as toll.
to impose a tax or toll on (a person).

verb (used without object)

to collect toll; levy toll.

toll

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verb (used with object)

to cause (a large bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for summoning a congregation to church, or especially for announcing a death.
to sound or strike (a knell, the hour, etc.) by such strokes:
In the distance Big Ben tolled five.
to announce by this means; ring a knell for (a dying or dead person).
to summon or dismiss by tolling.
to lure or decoy (game) by arousing curiosity.
to allure; entice:
He tolls us on with fine promises.

verb (used without object)

to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as a bell.

noun

the act of tolling a bell.
one of the strokes made in tolling a bell.
the sound made.

toll

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verb (used with object)

Law.

to suspend or interrupt, as a statute of limitations.

toll

/ 迟蓹蕣濒 /

verb

to ring or cause to ring slowly and recurrently
tr to summon, warn, or announce by tolling
to decoy (game, esp ducks)

noun

the act or sound of tolling

toll

/ 迟蓹蕣濒; t蓲l /

noun

1. an amount of money levied, esp for the use of certain roads, bridges, etc, to cover the cost of maintenance
2. ( as modifier )
  toll road
  toll bridge
loss or damage incurred through an accident, disaster, etc
the war took its toll of the inhabitants
Also calledtollage (formerly) the right to levy a toll
Also calledtoll charge a charge for a telephone call beyond a free-dialling area

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of toll¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English tol(le), Old English noun toll 鈥渢ax, levy, custom, toll鈥� (cognate with Dutch tol, German Zoll, Old Norse tollr ), assimilated variant of Middle English toln(e), Old English toln, from Late Latin tol艒n膿um, telonium, teloneum for Latin 迟别濒艒苍脓耻尘 鈥渃ustoms post,鈥� from Greek 迟别濒艒苍别卯辞苍 鈥渢ollhouse,鈥� derivative of 迟茅濒辞蝉 鈥渢ax鈥�; the verb is derivative of the noun

Origin of toll²

First recorded in 1175鈥�1225; Middle English tollen, tol(le) 鈥渢o entice, lure, pull,鈥� hence probably 鈥渢o make (a bell) ring by pulling a rope鈥�; akin to Old English tyllan 鈥渢o draw, attract,鈥� found only in the compound verb fortyllan 鈥渢o draw off, seduce鈥�

Origin of toll³

First recorded in 1425鈥�75; late Middle English tollen 鈥渢o remove, legally annul,鈥� from Anglo-French to(u)ller, from Latin tollere 鈥渢o lift up, take away, remove鈥�

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of toll¹

C15: perhaps related to Old English -tyllan, as in fortyllan to attract

Origin of toll²

Old English toln; related to Old Frisian tolene, Old High German zol toll, from Late Latin 迟别濒艒苍颈耻尘 customs house, from Greek 迟别濒贸苍颈辞苍, ultimately from telos tax

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Idioms and Phrases

see take its toll .

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Example Sentences

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His tariffs have taken such a toll on businesses and consumers that he softened auto-related levies in time for his Michigan visit.

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A monitoring group put the death toll at 17.

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鈥淚t鈥檚 the human toll that I think of when I think of that war,鈥� he says, 鈥渂oth American soldiers as well as the Vietnamese.鈥�

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鈥淲hen these dolphins and sea lions come to shore and they鈥檙e still alive, we do our best to make them comfortable and sometimes it doesn鈥檛 work out and that takes a toll.鈥�

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That's hard for many Indigenous people to swallow given the toll the referendum took - on those on both sides of the debate.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

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