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Tolls

Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

📖 Definitions of "Tolls"

noun
  1. 1

    Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

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

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    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."

  4. 4

    A tollbooth.

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

verb
  1. 1

    To impose a fee for the use of.

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

  2. 2

    To levy a toll on (someone or something).

  3. 3

    To take as a toll.

  4. 4

    To pay a toll or tallage.

noun
  1. 1

    The act or sound of tolling

verb
  1. 1

    To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.

    "Ask not for whom the bell tolls."

  2. 2

    To summon by ringing a bell.

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

  3. 3

    To announce by tolling.

    "The bells tolled the King’s death."

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