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Word: Toll
Speech Type: Noun
Old English toll (denoting a charge, tax, or duty), from medieval Latin toloneum, alteration of late Latin teloneum, from Greek telōnion ‘toll house’, from telos ‘tax’. toll (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)
təʊl
a charge payable to use a bridge or road
Short Definition:charge payable to use bridge or road
Examples:- motorway tolls
- a toll bridge
the number of deaths or casualties arising from a natural disaster, conflict, accident, etc.
Short Definition:number of deaths or casualties arising from natural disaster
Examples:- the toll of dead and injured mounted
Word: Toll
Speech Type: Verb
təʊl
charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road)
Short Definition:charge toll for use of
Examples:- the transport minister opposes tolling existing roads
- the report advocates motorway tolling
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