Crossword Dictionary
Toll
toll - n
a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
Synonyms
capitation, custom(s), excise, hidden tax, income tax, poll tax, property tax, sales tax, single tax, sin tax, tariff, tribute, value-added tax, withholding tax
Examples
The toll or message rates are £3, with id.
I remained seriously concerned about the toll the sessions were exerting on him.
Obviously the long week was taking its toll on him as well.
Etymology
"tax, fee," Old English toll "impost, tribute, passage-money, rent," variant of toln, cognate with Old Norse tollr, Old Frisian tolen, Old High German zol, German Zoll, probably an early Germanic borrowing from Late Latin tolonium "custom house," classical Latin telonium "tollhouse," from Greek teloneion "tollhouse," from telones "tax-collector," from telos "duty, tax, expense, cost" (from suffixed form of PIE root *tele- "to lift, support, weigh;" see extol) For sense, compare finance.