toll call

1. 1.

   a long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate

   Broaderlong distance

Questions about toll call

What does toll call mean?

toll call means "a long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate".

Is toll call a common word?

toll call is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.