Toll vs Policy - What's the difference?
toll | policy |
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
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.
(label) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
(label) A tollbooth.
A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
(label) To impose a fee for the use of.
(label) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
* Shakespeare
(label) To take as a toll.
To pay a toll or tallage.
(label) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
(label) To summon by ringing a bell.
* Dryden
(label) To announce by tolling.
* Beattie
To draw; pull; tug; drag.
(label) To tear in pieces.
(label) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
(label) To lure with bait (especially, fish and animals).
(obsolete) The art of governance; political science.
* a. 1616 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , I.1:
(obsolete) A state; a polity.
(obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.
(obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.
* a. 1594 , (William Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus :
A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 140:
* Fuller
(now, rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.25:
(Scotland, now, chiefly, in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
* 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, page 36:
(obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
* Francis Bacon
A contract of insurance
* Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
(obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural )
A number pool lottery
In transitive terms the difference between toll and policy
is that toll is to lure with bait (especially, fish and animals) while policy is to regulate by laws; to reduce to order.toll
English
(wikipedia toll)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), (m), . Alternate etymology derives (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* death toll * toll road * toll bridge * toll booth * * tollgateReferences
Verb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by (toil)Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
*Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), (m), variation of (m), .Alternative forms
* tole, toalVerb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (to lure animals) , lureEtymology 4
From (etyl) .policy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) policie, from . Compare police.Noun
(policies)- List his discourse of Warre; and you shall heare / A fearefull Battaile rendred you in Musique. / Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy , / The Gordian Knot of it he will vnloose, / Familiar as his Garter
- 'Tis pollicie , and stratageme must doe / That you affect, and so must you resolue, / That what you cannot as you would atcheiue, / You must perforce accomplish as you may.
- The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.
- These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you
- The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him.
- Whether he believed himself a god, or only took on the attributes of divinity from motives of policy , is a question for the psychologist, since the historical evidence is indecisive.
- Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.
- What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury?
Derived terms
* policied * policymaker * policy shift * endowment policy * fiscal policy * honesty is the best policy * monetary policy * policy mixVerb
- Policying of cities.''