{
    "term": "toll",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "money that you pay to use a particular road or bridge",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "motorway tolls"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **toll bridge**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the possibility of imposing tolls on some motorways"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by car or lorry"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["highway", "motorway", "road"],
                "verb + toll": ["charge", "collect", "exact"],
                "toll + noun": ["bridge", "highway", "motorway"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the amount of damage or the number of deaths and injuries that are caused in a particular war, disaster, etc.",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the war’s growing casualty toll"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Every hour, the news bulletin reported the mounting toll of casualties."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["The environment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["devastating", "enormous", "great"],
                "verb + toll": ["exact", "take", "estimate"],
                "toll + verb": ["mount", "rise", "reach something"],
                "preposition": ["toll on"],
                "phrases": ["bring the toll to", "put the toll at"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the sound of a bell ringing with slow, regular sounds",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a charge for a phone call that is calculated at a higher rate than a local call",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to have a bad effect on somebody/something; to cause a lot of damage, deaths, pain, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Illness had taken a heavy toll on her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The recession is taking its toll on the housing markets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/təʊl/",
                "audio": "to/toll/toll__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/təʊl/",
                "audio": "to/toll/toll__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun senses 1 to 2 and noun sense 4 Old English (denoting a charge, tax, or duty), from medieval Latin toloneum, alteration of late Latin teloneum, from Greek telōnion ‘toll house’, from telos ‘tax’. Sense (2) (late 19th cent.) arose from the notion of paying a toll or tribute in human lives (to an adversary or to death). noun sense 3 late Middle English: probably a special use of dialect toll ‘drag, pull’."
}