to toll
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- verb
- /toʊl/
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- My solution was found in a recent op-ed in the Pilot: start tolling as soon as you pull out of your driveway.
- tolled lanes
Examples
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To manage traffic better, officials decided to toll the major routes during peak hours.
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And then is regains its own investment, typically through some kind of tolling, some kind of user charge on on that infrastructure.
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Perhaps it's time for local authorities to start tolling the freeways to raise the necessary money.
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Let me be clear, this is not about mass tolling and as I've said, we're not tolling existing roads.
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In the past, Shuster has supported tolling and using more public-private partnerships to fund transportation, a recipe for building lots of tolled highways.
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After 6 years, the gas tax increase would sunset (except for the automatic indexation to inflation), but states would have much more revenue from tolling, and drivers would be much more accepting of tolling as a normal part of driving.
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Although the vast majority, 87 percent, said they use the 520 bridge once a week or less (and only 6 percent said they use the bridge more than three times a week), that didn't stop drivers from saying they'd go out of their way to avoid the bridge once it's tolled.
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The highway will be tolled, meaning drivers will pay a fee to use it.
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For maintenance, the bridge is now tolled, which helps cover the repair costs.
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Toll as a verb, to charge a fee, comes from the same old idea of a 'payment', so to toll a road or bridge is to ask people to pay to use it.