Meaning

• Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

  "The war has taken its toll on the people."

• 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.

• A fee for using any kind of material processing service.

  "We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending."

• A tollbooth.

  "We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers."

• 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.

Meaning

• To impose a fee for the use of.

  "Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges."

• To levy a toll on (someone or something).

• To take as a toll.

• To pay a toll or tallage.