Toll Explained

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

Toll, Queensland, a locality in the Charters Towers Region, Australia
Funeral toll, the slow, solemn ringing of church bells at funerals
Mount Toll, a mountain in Colorado
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