toll

Universal Words noun, verb noun 1 [C] money that you pay to use a particular road or bridge: motorway tolls * a toll road / bridge 2 [C,usually sing.] 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 7000. * the war's growing casualty toll * Every hour, the news bulletin reported the mounting toll of casualties. 3 [sing.] the sound of a bell ringing with slow regular strokes 4 [C] (AmE) a charge for a telephone call that is calculated at a higher rate than a local call IDIOMS take a heavy toll (on sb/sth)