The word toll has several meanings.
- In the context of transportation:
- toll road, toll bridge, toll tunnel, and toll house;
- Toll Holdings, in Australian transport;
- Toll Collect, in Germany;
- Toll NZ, in New Zealand;
- Electronic toll collection, high occupancy toll, shadow toll, toll revenue bond, and shunpiking. A toll road, (also known as a tollway, turnpike, pike, or toll highway, especially if it is constructed to Freeway standards A toll bridge is a Bridge over which Traffic may pass upon payment of a fee or toll. A toll tunnel is a special road Tunnel whose construction and/or maintenance costs are in part recouped through a Toll charged for passing through it A tollhouse or toll house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector beside a tollgate on a Toll road. TOLL () ( properly TOLL Holdings Limited, is Australia 's largest Transport company based in Melbourne, Victoria Toll Collect GmbH is a German company that has developed and is running the toll billing system for trucks on German Motorways The company is a consortium Toll Holdings New Zealand Limited is New Zealand 's largest Trucking company in terms of annual revenue and size Electronic toll collection (ETC, an adaptation of military " Identification friend or foe " technology aims to eliminate the delay on Toll roads It is a A high-occupancy toll ( HOT) is a toll enacted on Single-occupant vehicles who wish to use lanes or entire Roads that are designated for the use Shadow tolls are payments made by government to the private sector operator of a road based at least in part on the number of vehicles using the road A toll revenue bond is a financial Promissory note usually issued to generate funds for the construction and/or operation of a public accommodation such as an Expressway The term shunpiking comes from the word shun, meaning "to avoid" and pike, a term referring to Turnpikes which were roads which required
- Toll (gene) and toll-like receptor, in genetics. The Toll genes encode members of the Toll-like receptor class of proteins Toll-like receptors ( TLRs) are a class of single membrane-spanning non-catalytic receptors that recognize structurally conserved molecules derived from Microbes
- Tolling (law), a doctrine which allows for the pausing or delaying of the running of the limitation period set forth by a statute of limitations. A statute of limitations is a Statute in a Common law Legal system that sets forth the maximum period of time after certain events that legal proceedings
- Toll (telecommunications), refers to connection charges, for instance note trunk vs toll charging and toll-free telephone numbers. In the US, under the purview of the Bell System, local Telephone calls were free except in a few big cities and the term toll was adopted for Long A toll-free, Freecall, Freephone, or 800 number is a special Telephone number, in that the Called party is charged the cost of the
- Toll switching trunk. In Telecommunication, a toll switching trunk is a trunk connecting one or more end offices to a toll center as the first stage of concentration
- Toll House cookies, a brand of Nestlé, S. Toll House is a Brand of Cookies and brownies marketed by Nestlé. A.
- Johan Christopher Toll (1743–1817), a Swedish statesman and soldier. Count Johan Christopher Toll (1743 &ndash 1817 Swedish statesman and soldier was born at Mölleröd in Scania.
- Toll is German for "great". The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.
- Sometimes used as a synonym for Tariff. For other uses of this word see Tariff (disambiguation. A tariff is a tax imposed on goods when they are moved across a political boundary
- a Funeral toll is the slow, solemn ringing of Church bells at funerals. Church bells are rung at Christian Funeral services as they are rung at other services A church bell is a bell which is rung in a (especially Christian) church either to signify the Hour or the time for worshippers to go to
- toll-treat, a process or procedure for handling metal ore before refining, definition and explanation required
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