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Definition of Toll-free
1. Adjective. Having no toll levied for its use. "A toll-free telephone number"
Definition of Toll-free
1. Adjective. (context: of a road or highway) Free to use, not requiring paying a toll to use. ¹
2. Adjective. (US of a phone call) Without an additional toll, especially for a long distance charge. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toll-free
Literary usage of Toll-free
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent's Guide to Prevention (1989)
"... To order additional free copies of this guide, call the Department of Educations
toll-free number: ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Roger Meeson, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1846)
"It seems monstrous to say, that those who are entitled to pass toll-free should
use the water without restriction, when others are precluded from doing so. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1846)
"It seems monstrous to say, that those who are entitled to pass toll-free should
use the water without restriction, when others are precluded from doing so. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1905)
"The agreed case shows that Ohio permitted and still permits, one daily line of
mail-coaches to go, with its passengers, toll free. There was, therefore ..."
5. Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Leicester (England), Mary Bateson, William Henry Stevenson, John Edward Stocks (1905)
"Duchy tenants toll-free. Box 7 A, No. 3. [May, 1574. ... of a record making duchy
tenants toll free, under conditions similar to No. LXXI. above. CXCIII. ..."
6. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1844)
"... toll-free before Nine o'Clock the next Morning, § l O3. During the existing
Leases of the Mills of Ayr no Toll to be taken for Horses or Carriages ..."
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