noun · neutral
toll road
UK/təʊl rəʊd/US/toʊl roʊd/TOLL road
Band 5-6speakingtask2
a road that drivers must pay to use
Examples
“We avoided the toll road to save money.”
“The new toll road shortened my commute by 20 minutes.”
“They installed electronic gates on the toll road.”
Band 8 sentence
“To fund the new bypass without raising taxes, the council decided to build a toll road and invest the revenue in local transport improvements.”
Collocations
- pay a toll
- toll booth
- build/operate a toll road
Word family
toll nountoll (verb) verbtollbooth noun
Common mistakes
road toll→toll road
tollway→toll road
Say it for a higher band
5road toll→6tollway→7+toll road
Synonyms
turnpike
Easily confused
congestion charge
“The city introduced a congestion charge to discourage cars from entering the centre during peak hours.”
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