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exact a toll — exact a toll/price/cost ► to create problems, loss, danger, etc. for someone or something: »Alcohol and drug abusers exact a heavy toll on American businesses due to lower productivity, increased absenteeism, and accidents. Main Entry: ↑exact … Financial and business terms
exact a toll/price/cost — ► to create problems, loss, danger, etc. for someone or something: »Alcohol and drug abusers exact a heavy toll on American businesses due to lower productivity, increased absenteeism, and accidents. Main Entry: ↑exact … Financial and business terms
exact — ex‧act [ɪgˈzækt] verb [transitive] formal to demand and get something from someone, especially using forceful methods: • My client is only claiming the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand. exaction noun [uncountable] : • The company… … Financial and business terms
exact a cost — exact a toll/price/cost ► to create problems, loss, danger, etc. for someone or something: »Alcohol and drug abusers exact a heavy toll on American businesses due to lower productivity, increased absenteeism, and accidents. Main Entry: ↑exact … Financial and business terms
exact a price — exact a toll/price/cost ► to create problems, loss, danger, etc. for someone or something: »Alcohol and drug abusers exact a heavy toll on American businesses due to lower productivity, increased absenteeism, and accidents. Main Entry: ↑exact … Financial and business terms
exact a price/cost — exact a toll/price/cost ► to create problems, loss, danger, etc. for someone or something: »Alcohol and drug abusers exact a heavy toll on American businesses due to lower productivity, increased absenteeism, and accidents. Main Entry: ↑exact … Financial and business terms
toll — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Vulgar Latin *tolonium, alteration of Late Latin telonium customhouse, from Greek tolōnion, from telōnēs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll; perhaps akin to Greek tlēnai to bear Date … New Collegiate Dictionary
exact — [[t]ɪgzæ̱kt[/t]] ♦♦ exacts, exacting, exacted 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Exact means correct in every detail. For example, an exact copy is the same in every detail as the thing it is copied from. I don t remember the exact words... The exact… … English dictionary
toll bridge — A bridge for the use of which a toll is collected. As a private instrumentality, abridge built and maintained under public authority as a portion of the highway with which it is connected, dedicated to public use, subject only to the right of the … Ballentine's law dictionary
toll — 1 n [Old English, tax or fee paid for a liberty or privilege, ultimately from Late Latin telonium custom house, from Greek tolōnion, from telōnēs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll]: a charge for the use of a transportation route or… … Law dictionary
