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Collocations for toll - noun

1. money that you pay to use a road, bridge, etc.

ADJECTIVE

highway (in the US), motorway (in the UK), road

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VERB + toll

charge, collect, exact, impose, levy
the possibility of imposing tolls on some roads
pay

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toll + NOUN

bridge, highway (in the US), motorway (in the UK), road
booth (usually tollbooth), plaza, station (both AmE)
charge

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2. amount of damage done/number of people killed

ADJECTIVE

devastating, enormous, great, heavy, high, huge, terrible, tragic
mounting, rising
the mounting death toll
final
casualty, death, injury (esp. BrE)
civilian, human
emotional, physical, psychological

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VERB + toll

exact, take
The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll.
The recession is taking its toll.
estimate

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toll + VERB

mount, rise
The death toll from yesterday's crash is still rising.
reach sth
The casualty toll could reach 200.
stand at sth
The death toll stands at 37.

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PREPOSITION

toll on
Illness has taken a heavy toll on her.

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PHRASES

bring the toll to
This brings the death toll to 86.
put the toll at
The latest estimates put the death toll at 15 000.

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Collocations for toll - verb

Toll is used with these nouns as the subject:
bell

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