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Definition of Toll collector
1. Noun. Someone employed to collect tolls.
Generic synonyms: Employee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toll Collector
Literary usage of Toll collector
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn, Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty (1837)
"... fusing to permit toll collector, or other person shall refuse to permit any
such inspector, «•!• them to enter, or lector, or other person authorized as ..."
2. Forty Years in Constantinople: The Recollections of Sir Edwin Pears, 1873 by Edwin Pears (1916)
"The Only Gentleman in Europe "—British Tommies and a Turkish toll collector—Gallantry
and Death— A Strange Court Scene—The Scots at ..."
3. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1832)
"... and if any Toll-gate Keeper, toll collector, or other Person shall refuse to
permit any such Inspector, Collector, or other Person authorized as ..."
4. Burn's Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer: Containing the Cases by Thomas Chitty, Richard Burn (1845)
"... or for the purpose of receiving and examining the tickets relating to horses
let for hire ; and if any toll-gate keeper, toll collector, or other person ..."
5. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"Passenger may require toll collector to count the number of passengers, ...
the one-half of such penalty to belong to the toll collector for his trouble, ..."
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