toll
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toll (plural tolls)
- A fee for using something, esp. of roads and bridges
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster
- The war has taken its toll on the people.
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to toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)
- (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
- Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.
- (transitive) To levy a toll on (someone).
- (transitive) To take as a toll.
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toll (plural tolls)
- The act or sound of tolling
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to toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)
- To make the noise of a bell
- For whom the bell tolls.
- To ring a bell slowly and repeatedly
- To announce by tolling
- The bells tolled the King’s death.
- (law) To suspend
- The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.
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to toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)
- To entice.
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toll
[edit] German
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Old High German tol
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toll
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[edit] Hungarian
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- IPA: /ˈtolː/
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toll (plural tollak)
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declension of toll
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- IPA: [t̪ˠoːl̪ˠ], [t̪ˠɔl̪ˠ]
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toll (present tollann, past tholl, future tollfaidh, conditional thollfadh, past participle tollta, verbal noun tolladh)
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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.
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- IPA: /tol:/
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toll n
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toll m. (genitive and plural tuill)
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toll

