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NSW Roads Minister Michael Daley said the toll was a 64-year-record - the first time it had fallen below 400 since 1944.

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  1. noun A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
  2. noun A charge for a service, such as a long-distance telephone call.
  3. noun An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property: "Poverty and inadequate health care take their toll on the quality of a community's health” (Los Angeles Times).
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  • NSW Roads Minister Michael Daley said the toll was a 64-year-record - the first time it had fallen below 400 since 1944. —  Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • Media reports say the toll is at least 10 times higher, after the —  Yahoo! News: Top Stories
  • Media reports say the toll is at least 10 times higher, after the Kosi river, which originates in Nepal, burst a dam last month and unleashed the worst flooding in Bihar in 50 years. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Craig said the consumer is instructed to call a toll-free number and arrange for the package to be delivered after a processing and delivery fee of $6.95 is paid. —  The Times-Journal: News
  • Consumers may also call a toll-free number, 1-888-388-2009 (1-888-DTV-2009), for an update in English or Spanish. —  WCAV - HomePage - Headlines
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tax ·  fee ·  burden ·  tariff ·  tribute ·  taxation ·  rend ·  rent ·  contribution ·  penalty ·  damage ·  suffer

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toll:   tolls ·  tolled
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Etymologies (8)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English, variant of toln, from Medieval Latin tolōnīum, from Latin telōnēum, tollbooth, from Greek telōneion, from telōnēs, tax collector, from telos, tax; see telə- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English tollen, to ring an alarm, perhaps from tollen, to entice, pull, variant of tillen, from Old English -tyllan.

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  1. from Middle English tol, tolle, from Anglo-Saxon tol, toll =Old Saxon tolna =OFries. tolne, tolene, tolen =D. tol =Middle Low German toln, tolen, tollen, tolne, tolle =Old High German Middle High German zol, German zoll =Icelandic tollr =Swedish tull =Danish told (Gothic (Moesogothic) not recorded), toll, duty, custom; orig. *toln- (Old Saxon tolna, etc.) (ln later ll by assimilation), literally ‘that which is counted or told,’ from a strong past participle of the verb represented by the secondary weak form tell, count, etc.: see tell, and cf. tale, number, etc. Not connected with Late Latin telonium, from Greek τελώνιον, a custom-house, etc. (Middle Latin toloneum, tolonium, tolnetum, etc., toll, are perverted forms of telonium. apparently simulating toll).
  2. from Middle English tollen =Icelandic tolla =Swedish tulla =Danish tolde, tax. take toll; from the noun.
  3. Also irreg. tole, formerly toal; from Middle English tollen, later sometimes tolen, draw, allure, entice, tollien, also tullen, draw, allure, entice, tille, from Anglo-Saxon *tyllan in for-tyllan, draw away from the mark, allure: see till.
  4. Formerly also tole; a particular use of toll, pull, the sense having passed from ‘pull a bell,’ i. e. pull the rope so as to make the bell sound, to ‘make the bell sound.’
  5. Formerly also tole; from toll, v.
  6. from Latin tollere, lift up, take away: see tolerate.
 

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