toll

English

/təʊl/, /toʊɫ/, /toʊl/

noun
Definitions
  • Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
  • 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.
  • (business) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
  • (US) A tollbooth.
  • (UK) 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.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English toll (toll) inherited from Old English tol inherited from Proto-Germanic *tullō (what is counted told) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (calculation, fraud, reckoning) inherited from Old English toll derived from Latin tolōneum, telōneum derived from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (toll-house).

Origin

Ancient Greek

τελώνιον

Gloss

toll-house

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