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Meanings of toll agent in anglès

Someone employed to collect tolls.

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      Examples for "tollman"
      Examples for "tollman"
      1
      Turkey stands the tollman at the turnpike-gate, controlling and usurping the highway of all nations.
      St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1...
      2
      At last, he came to the bridge over the Clyde, and there the tollman directed us to the Observatory.
      Travellers' Stories
      3
      Eben Tollman was sitting in a stiff-backed chair across from his host.
      The Tyranny of Weakness
      4
      But Conscience Tollman only shook her head and smiled her unconverted scepticism.
      The Tyranny of Weakness
      5
      Tollman remained unhospitably rigid and his eyes narrowed into an immediate hostility.
      The Tyranny of Weakness
      1
      When the from the bushes behind which the toller hides till the bird is in range.
      The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search o...
      2
      Mrs. Poulter signified to Miss Toller her extreme surprise at the suggestion.
      More Pages from a Journal
      3
      Yes; I did have a talk, in your best interests, with Miss Toller.
      The Guilty River
      4
      And Sophy Toller is all I could desire in a daughter-in-law.
      Middlemarch
      5
      The whole of the correspondence was shown to me by Mrs. Stephen Toller.
      The Guilty River
      1
      And when they passed a toll-gate, all the tollkeeper's family and neighbors came out to see the array.
      Old Caravan Days
      1
      Mully just clowned around and took a lowly job as a toll collector.
      The new yorker
      2
      The toll collector still had not appeared.
      The Godfather
      3
      The bridges will stay open, but they will not be staffed by toll collectors.
      The Irish Times
      4
      Harbormasters, tax farmers, customs sergeants, wool factors, toll collectors, pursers, wine factors; nine of every ten belonged to Littlefinger.
      A clash of kings
      5
      This will be a marriage of cattle thieves and toll collectors, one lot of coin clinkers joining with another.
      A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
      1
      Sonny handed the toll taker the dollar bill and waited for his change.
      The Godfather
      2
      But the toll taker was fumbling with his change; the dumb son of a bitch actually dropped it.
      The Godfather
      3
      And so they exchanged; the toll taker at the barrier kept the goose, and the peasant carried away the fowl.
      Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
      4
      Thanks in part to the contracts, investors have viewed the midstream operators as toll takers insulated from the volatility of energy prices.
      Reuters