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Toll

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Toll may refer to:

Transportation

  • Toll (fee) a fee charged for the use of a road or waterway
    • Road pricing, the modern practice of charging for road use
    • Road toll (historic), the historic practice of charging for road use
    • Shadow toll, payments made by government to the private sector operator of a road based on the number of vehicles using the road
  • Road toll (Australia and New Zealand), term for road death toll, i.e., the number of deaths caused annually by road accidents

Brands and enterprises

  • Toll Brothers, Horsham Township, Pennsylvania based construction company founded by brothers Robert I. Toll and Bruce E. Toll
  • Toll Collect, a transportation support company in Germany
  • Toll Group, an Australian transportation company
    • Toll Domestic Forwarding, an Australian freight forwarder
    • Toll Ipec, Australian transportation company
    • Toll Resources & Government Logistics

Science

  • Toll (gene), encode members of the Toll-like receptor class of proteins
  • Toll-like receptor, a class of proteins that play a key role in the innate immune system

Technology

  • Toll (telecommunications), refers to connection charges, for instance note Trunk vs. Toll charging and toll-free telephone numbers
  • Toll switching trunk, in telephone communications systems

Other uses

  • Funeral toll, the slow, solemn ringing of church bells at funerals
  • Toll (name), a list of people with the name
  • Toll, the ringing of a bell
  • Tolling (law), a doctrine which allows for the pausing or delaying of the running of the period of time set forth by a statute of limitations

See also

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