toll

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

toll UK [təʊl] US [toʊl] noun [ tolls ]
 
CHARGE

1. countable a small amount of money that you have to pay to use a road, cross a bridge, etc
• He's just got a job collecting tolls at the start of the motorway.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Driving and operating road vehicles ↑Taxation ↑Bills and invoices
2. countable US the money a long-distance telephone call costs
• Is Bayonne a toll call (= a more expensive telephone call) from New York?
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Communicating by telephone
 
• The toll of bankruptcies was rising daily.
• The toll of babies born with AIDS is rising.
 
SUFFERING
3. <A > uncountable suffering, deaths or damage
• Independent sources say that the death toll from the earthquake runs into thousands.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Death and dying ↑Injuring and injuries ↑Damaging and spoiling ↑Destroying and demolishing
Idiom: take a toll
 
verb intransitive or transitive
to (cause a large bell to) ring slowly and repeatedly
• In the distance, a church bell tolled the hour (= showed the time by ringing).
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Sounds made by objects, movement or impact

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  bell, price, cost