Tra từ toll - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

toll [toll tolls tolled tolling] noun, verb BrE [təʊl] NAmE [toʊl]
noun
1. countable money that you pay to use a particular road or bridge
•motorway tolls
•a toll road/bridge
2. countable, usually singular the amount of damage or the number of deaths and injuries that are caused in a particular war, disaster, etc
•The official death toll has now reached 7 000.
•the war's growing casualty toll
•Every hour, the news bulletin reported the mounting toll of casualties.
3. singular the sound of a bell ringing with slow regular strokes
4. countable (NAmE)a charge for a telephone call that is calculated at a higher rate than a local call

Word Origin:
n. senses 1 to 2 and n. sense 4 Old English medieval Latin toloneum late Latin teloneum Greek telōnion ‘toll house’ telos ‘tax’ v. and n. sense 3 late Middle English toll ‘drag, pull’

Synonyms:
rate
charge • fee • rent • fine • fare • toll • rental
These are all words for an amount of money that is charged or paid for sth.
rate • a fixed amount of money that is asked or paid for sth: ▪ a low hourly rate of pay ◇ ▪ interest rates
charge • an amount of money that is asked for goods or services: ▪ an admission charge
fee • (rather formal) an amount of money that you have to pay for professional advice or services, to go to a school or college, or to join an organization: ▪ legal fees ◇ ▪ an annual membership fee
rent • an amount of money that you regularly have to pay for use of a building or room. In American English, rent can be used to mean rental: ▪ The weekly rent on the car was over $300.
fine • a sum of money that must be paid as punishment for breaking a law or rule: ▪ a parking fine
fare • the money that you pay to travel by bus, plane, taxi, etc.
toll • an amount of money that you have to pay to use a particular road or bridge.
rental • an amount of money that you have to pay to use sth for a particular period of time.
rent or rental?
In British English rent is only money paid to use a building or room: for other items use rental. In American English rent can be used for both, but rental is still more common for other items.
(a) rate/charge/fee/rent/fine/fare/toll/rental for sth
(a) rate/charge/fee/rent/toll/rental on sth
at a rate/charge/fee/rent/fare/rental of…
for a charge/fee
to pay (a) rate/charge/fee/rent/fine/fare/toll/rental
to charge (a) rate/fee/rent/fare/toll/rental

Example Bank:
•The casualty toll could reach 200.
•The death toll from yesterday's crash is still rising.
•The death toll stands at 37.
•The latest estimates put the death toll at 15 000.
•The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll.
•The recession is taking its toll.
•This brings the death toll to 86.
•the possibility of imposing tolls on some motorways
•Is San Jose to San Mateo a toll call?
•She took enough money to pay for motorway tolls and ferry tickets.
•a toll road/bridge
Idioms: ↑take a heavy toll ▪ ↑take its toll

verb intransitive, transitive
when a bell tolls or sb tolls it, it is rung slowly many times, especially as a sign that sb has died
•~ (for sb) The Abbey bell tolled for those killed in the war.
•Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
•~ sth The bell tolled the hour.
• (figurative)The revolution tolled the death knell (= signalled the end) for the Russian monarchy.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
n. senses 1 to 2 and n. sense 4 Old English medieval Latin toloneum late Latin teloneum Greek telōnion ‘toll house’ telos ‘tax’ v. and n. sense 3 late Middle English toll ‘drag, pull’

Example Bank:
•‘Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.’
•The revolution tolled the death knell for the Russian monarchy.