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Definition of Toll call
1. Noun. A long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate.
Definition of Toll call
1. Noun. a telephone call with a higher charge than that for a normal local call ¹
2. Noun. a long distance call ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toll Call
Literary usage of Toll call
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911)
"2--Relative amount of operating labor required to handle a toll call by ...
Considering first the efficiency of labor involved in handling a toll call, Fig. ..."
2. Public Utilities Reports by Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, inc (1918)
"Each originating toll call is charged with two line and instrument uses, and each
inward toll call is charged with one use. The coefficients used here for ..."
3. Office Practice by Mary Florence Cahill, Agnes Clementine Ruggeri (1917)
"The Two-number toll call is your National Trust Company call. Here you asked for
a number ... The Particular-person toll call is your Mr. Jones call. ..."
4. Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act by Herbert Confield Lust (1917)
"A local service rate of 5c applied from Flushing to Manhattan; but this was
charged if the call was answered by anyone, while the 15c toll call rate was ..."
5. Commission Leaflets by Legal dept, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1918)
"K. of the subscriber to any toll call put in over said subscriber's 'phone by
... K. to such toll call and in case of later controversy her immediate ..."
6. Transactions (1911)
"2—Relative amount of operating labor required to handle a toll call by ...
Considering first the efficiency of labor involved in handling a toll call, Fig. ..."
7. Problems in Office Practice and Business Style by Harold Strumpf (1922)
"8 Explain (a) two-number toll call, (b) particular person toll call. ... The charge
is lower than for (b) a Particular Person toll call. ..."
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