(n.) A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833).
(n.) The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound.
(n.) Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares.
(v. t.) To make a list of duties on, as goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) The announcement on feed-in tariffs will be welcomed by Labour backbenchers, who staged the biggest revolt of Gordon Brown's leadership over the issue.
(2) Ofgem said separately that tougher rules taking effect on Tuesday would ban energy companies from increasing prices on fixed-term tariffs.
(3) Trump might claim that the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a national security crisis that justifies his invocation of this law, and imposition of the tariff.
(4) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(5) • Feed-in tariffs (FITs) for small-scale renewables: Fears that existing FITs would be cut were unfounded.
(6) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
(7) Fact-check: Donald Trump on trade, globalization and the Clintons Read more While not mentioning Trump by name, Lagarde made it clear she strongly opposed the Republican candidate’s policies, which include higher US tariffs and a barrier along the border with Mexico.
(8) It said 3,531 IPP prisoners had passed their tariffs – the dates set by their trial judge for their earliest release.
(9) Britain’s biggest energy provider said that the price cut, which will take effect from 27 August, would reduce annual energy bills on average by £35 and benefit 6.9 million of its customers on Standard and Fix & Fall tariffs.
(10) The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, which represents carmakers, also says any move to reduce quickly the 5% tariff on imported cars – which will make new cars up to $2000 cheaper – may also force earlier closure.
(11) "It really likes the fact that 95% of cars on the road are built here, thanks to very high tariffs on imported cars.
(12) Taking out low-risk, high-volume, interventions which injected money into the NHS – due to the pricing of the tariff – is exposing NHS hospitals to the risk of financial failure.
(13) Experts say it is not delivering fast enough and a campaign for a feed-in tariff is growing, although the government dismisses FITs as too "interventionist".
(14) At £977 a year, its Thames Online tariff fixes prices for 12 months – and customer service reports are more positive.
(15) All households should therefore check their tariff and search the market to see if they can save money elsewhere, and consider fixing.
(16) As soon as the feed-in tariff was removed, that position looked very different.” What’s more, Rumble believes that solar energy was just a few years away from being cheap enough not to require government support to grow.
(17) First Utility's cheapest fixed rate tariff, iSave Fixed v4, which sets prices until March 2014, costs £1,087.
(18) A spokeswoman for the prime minister claimed that Ofgem's proposals, which would prevent suppliers from offering any more than four primary tariffs for each fuel type, would sit alongside Cameron's stated plans for legislation which could force suppliers to give customers the cheapest deals.
(19) If prices rise by 10% from current levels users will, on average, be £142 a year better off on the EDF tariff.
(20) Another difficulty is that the US is faster and more determined than the EU to impose tariffs when it judges that illegal Chinese dumping is taken place.
Toll
Definition:
(v. t.) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
(v. t.) To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
(v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
(v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.
(v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
(v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.
(n.) The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
(n.) A tax 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, or the like.
(n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
(n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
(v. i.) To pay toll or tallage.
(v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax.
(v. t.) To collect, as a toll.
Example Sentences:
(1) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
(2) Large price cuts seem to have taken a toll on retailer profitability, while not necessarily increasing sales substantially,” Barclaycard concluded.
(3) But sanctions and mismanagement took their toll, and the scale of the long-awaited economic catharsis won’t be grand,” he says.
(4) The number of killings in Iraq has reached levels unseen since 2008 in recent months and Sunday's attacks bring the death toll across the country in October to 545, according to an Associated Press count.
(5) I came from a strong family and my parents had a devoted marriage, but I experienced the toll breast cancer took on their relationship and their children.
(6) AP reported a lower death toll of one killed and 20 wounded.
(7) As BHP’s share price in Australia pushed near 10-year lows on Thursday, the government in Brasilia has become increasingly concerned over the rising death toll and contaminated mud flowing through two states as a result of the disaster.
(8) Chinese authorities have raised the death toll from Beijing's floods to 77 from 37 after the public questioned the days-old tally.
(9) Undoubtedly, as repeatedly urged, appropriate selective screening and health education could effectively reduce the toll of mortality, especially in high-risk developing populations.
(10) In fact the UN estimates the total death toll, regardless of responsibility, to be about 93,000 people.
(11) Nancy Curtin, the chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management said: "The US economy didn't just grind to a halt in the first quarter – it hit reverse as the polar vortex took its toll.
(12) The lesson for the international community, fatigued or bored by competing stories of Middle Eastern carnage, is that problems that are left to fester only get worse – and always take a terrible human toll.
(13) The combined mortality and morbidity from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage exceeds 40%, and therefore yields a remarkably high toll of human and economic loss.
(14) And at the coalface of Israeli coalition management, where every deal is done over the still-twitching body of an ally fervently opposed to it, the economics of disappointment eventually take a toll.
(15) Murdoch's British newspapers, which include the Times, the Sun and the News of the World, suffered a 14% drop in year-end advertising revenue as the recession took its toll.
(16) But it had already taken its toll on the Deghayes's children.
(17) The death toll was expected to rise sharply and 20,000 civilians were sheltering in two UN bases in Juba.
(18) The death toll in Gaza has climbed to at least 480, with more than 2,300 wounded, according to Palestinian medical officials.
(19) The devastating toll it has had on this generation of children is far-reaching.
(20) The feeling of restlessness and fatigue started to take its toll and I spent more and more time alone.