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tolls

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noun

  • Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

    "The war has taken its toll on the people."

  • 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.
  • A fee for using any kind of material processing service.

    "We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending."

  • A tollbooth.

    "We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers."

  • 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.

verb

  • To impose a fee for the use of.

    "Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges."

  • To levy a toll on (someone or something).
  • To take as a toll.
  • To pay a toll or tallage.

noun

  • The act or sound of tolling

verb

  • To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.

    "Ask not for whom the bell tolls."

  • To summon by ringing a bell.

    "The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers."

  • To announce by tolling.

    "The bells tolled the King’s death."

verb

  • To draw; pull; tug; drag.
  • To tear in pieces.
  • To draw; entice; invite; allure.

    "Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady""

  • To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
Synonyms:baitlure

verb

  • To take away; to vacate; to annul.
  • To suspend.

    "The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct."

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