Alcohol and drug abusers exact a heavy toll on American businesses due to lower productivity, increased absenteeism, and accidents.
Financial and business terms. 2012.
exact a price/cost — exact a toll/price/cost ► to create problems, loss, danger, etc. for someone or something: »Alcohol and drug abusers exact a heavy toll on American businesses due to lower productivity, increased absenteeism, and accidents. Main Entry: ↑exact … Financial and business terms
exact a toll — exact a toll/price/cost ► to create problems, loss, danger, etc. for someone or something: »Alcohol and drug abusers exact a heavy toll on American businesses due to lower productivity, increased absenteeism, and accidents. Main Entry: ↑exact … Financial and business terms
exact — ex‧act [ɪgˈzækt] verb [transitive] formal to demand and get something from someone, especially using forceful methods: • My client is only claiming the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand. exaction noun [uncountable] : • The company… … Financial and business terms
exact a cost — exact a toll/price/cost ► to create problems, loss, danger, etc. for someone or something: »Alcohol and drug abusers exact a heavy toll on American businesses due to lower productivity, increased absenteeism, and accidents. Main Entry: ↑exact … Financial and business terms
exact a price — exact a toll/price/cost ► to create problems, loss, danger, etc. for someone or something: »Alcohol and drug abusers exact a heavy toll on American businesses due to lower productivity, increased absenteeism, and accidents. Main Entry: ↑exact … Financial and business terms
toll — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Vulgar Latin *tolonium, alteration of Late Latin telonium customhouse, from Greek tolōnion, from telōnēs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll; perhaps akin to Greek tlēnai to bear Date … New Collegiate Dictionary
toll — 1 n [Old English, tax or fee paid for a liberty or privilege, ultimately from Late Latin telonium custom house, from Greek tolōnion, from telōnēs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll]: a charge for the use of a transportation route or… … Law dictionary
cost — [n1] expense; price paid amount, arm and a leg*, bad news*, bite*, bottom dollar*, bottom line*, charge, damage*, disbursement, dues, expenditure, figure, line, nick*, nut*, outlay, payment, price, price tag, rate, score*, setback*, squeeze*, tab … New thesaurus
Toll roads around the world — Asia ChinaNearly all Chinese expressways and express routes charge tolls, although they are not often networked from one toll expressway to another. However, beginning with the Jingshen Expressway, tolls are gradually being networked. Given the… … Wikipedia
price — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Something demanded in exchange Nouns 1. price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure, demand; fare, hire, bill, tab, rental; overhead, carrying charge or cost; rent charge, rackrent,… … English dictionary for students
