The difference between Tax and Toll
When used as nouns, tax means money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services, whereas toll means loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
When used as verbs, tax means to impose and collect a tax from (a person), whereas toll means to impose a fee for the use of.
check bellow for the other definitions of Tax and Toll
-
Tax as a noun:
Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
-
Tax as a noun:
A burdensome demand.
Examples:
"a heavy tax on time or health"
-
Tax as a noun:
A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
-
Tax as a noun (obsolete):
charge; censure
Examples:
"rfquotek Clarendon"
-
Tax as a noun (obsolete):
A lesson to be learned.
Examples:
"rfquotek Johnson"
-
Tax as a verb (transitive):
To impose and collect a tax from (a person).
Examples:
"Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest."
-
Tax as a verb (transitive):
To impose and collect a tax on (something).
Examples:
"Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector."
-
Tax as a verb (transitive):
To make excessive demands on.
-
Toll as a noun:
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
Examples:
"The war has taken its toll on the people."
-
Toll as a noun:
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.
-
Toll as a noun (business):
A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
Examples:
"We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending."
-
Toll as a noun (US):
A tollbooth.
Examples:
"We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers."
-
Toll as a noun (UK, legal, obsolete):
A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
-
Toll as a noun:
A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
-
Toll as a verb (transitive):
To impose a fee for the use of.
Examples:
"Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges."
-
Toll as a verb (ambitransitive):
To levy a toll on (someone or something).
-
Toll as a verb (transitive):
To take as a toll.
-
Toll as a verb:
To pay a toll or tallage.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
-
Toll as a noun:
The act or sound of tolling
-
Toll as a verb (ergative):
To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
Examples:
"Martin tolled the great bell every day."
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls."
-
Toll as a verb (transitive):
To summon by ringing a bell.
Examples:
"The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers."
-
Toll as a verb (transitive):
To announce by tolling.
Examples:
"The bells tolled the King’s death."
-
Toll as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To draw; pull; tug; drag.
-
Toll as a verb (transitive):
To tear in pieces.
-
Toll as a verb (transitive):
To draw; entice; invite; allure.
Examples:
"Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady"
-
Toll as a verb (transitive):
To lure with bait (especially, fish and animals).
-
Toll as a verb (legal, obsolete):
To take away; to vacate; to annul.
-
Toll as a verb (legal):
To suspend.
Examples:
"The [[statute of limitations]] [[defense]] was tolled as a result of the [[defendant defendant’s]] wrongful [[conduct]]."
-
Toll as a verb (AAVE):
Examples:
"I done toll you for the last time."