toll taker

1. 1.

   someone employed to collect tolls

   Synonymstollkeepertollmantollgatherertoll collectortoll agenttoller

   Broaderemployee

Questions about toll taker

What does toll taker mean?

toll taker means "someone employed to collect tolls".

What is another word for toll taker?

Close synonyms include tollkeeper, tollman, tollgatherer, toll collector, toll agent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is toll taker a common word?

toll taker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.