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toll

noun as in fee

noun as in damage, deaths

verb as in ring out

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In Sweden, the government’s decision to adopt a light-touch strategy to tackle the pandemic pushed its death toll per capita many times higher than in the rest of the Nordic region.

From Fortune

In contrast, income growth has stalled or even turned negative among the hundreds of millions in the low- to middle-income population as the pandemic took a toll on the jobs market.

From Ozy

Even as the number of confirmed covid-19 cases in Jammu and Kashmir crossed 13,000 and the death toll passed 200 in mid-July, the government refused to restore 4G internet speeds.

In early June, it forced the health ministry to start publishing comprehensive data on covid-19 deaths again, after the ministry stopped doing so in what was widely seen as an attempt to cover up the rapidly rising death toll.

The incident took a severe toll on public confidence in vaccination.

From Ozy

The death toll, which experts believe has been significantly undercut by secret burials, stands at 7,905.

In France, the death toll has been lower: One young man killed in the city of Nantes.

The latest reported death toll is 80 children and 46 adults, but that is expected to rise.

While the look worked for some, the combination of heat and chemicals took a toll on the hair of others.

“The amount of literal brainwork needed to do his job too such a toll on him that it sent him to an early grave,” Goode says.

On this the royal band of music would strike up its liveliest airs, and a great bell would toll its evening warning.

Jack's keeper offered the right toll, but the toll-bar man would not take it.

A country girl, riding by a turnpike-road without paying toll, the gate-keeper hailed her and demanded his fee.

Sixty, nay fifty, years ago, there were six toll-houses and turnpike bars between London and Portsmouth.

On leaving Conway we crossed the suspension bridge, paying a goodly toll for the privilege.

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On this page you'll find 78 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to toll, such as: cost, expense, levy, payment, price, and rate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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