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toll
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[ noun ] (business) a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)That 's why the FDA , the American_Medical_Association ( AMA ) , and the National_Better_Business_Bureau ( BBB ) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $ 610 million or_so paid to medical charlatans annually . Related terms |
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[ noun ] value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
Examples : "the cost in human life was enormous" "the price of success is hard work" "what price glory?" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)The economic toll that the device quack extracts is important , of_course . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (music) ring slowly, of bells
Examples "For whom the bell tolls" Used in print (John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)In many Northern towns and cities meetings were held and church_bells were tolled . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the sound of a bell being struck
Synonyms Examples "saved by the bell" "she heard the distant toll of church bells" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 10968
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