tolls
Because it is a word with a single syllable, tolls is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions oftolls
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
Example: "The war has taken its toll on the people."
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
Example: "We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending."
- A tollbooth.
Example: "We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers."
- A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
- A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
- To impose a fee for the use of.
Example: "Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges."
- To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- To take as a toll.
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- The act or sound of tolling
- To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
Example: "Ask not for whom the bell tolls."
- To summon by ringing a bell.
Example: "The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers."
- To announce by tolling.
Example: "The bells tolled the King’s death."
- To draw; pull; tug; drag.
- To tear in pieces.
- To draw; entice; invite; allure.
Example: "Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady""
- To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
- To take away; to vacate; to annul.
- To suspend.
Example: "The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct."
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