Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gate barring passage to a road, tunnel, or bridge until a toll is collected.
- noun A tollbooth equipped with a gate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gate where toll is taken; a toll-bar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A gate where toll is taken.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
barrier across atoll road ortoll bridge that is lifted when thetoll is paid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid
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Examples
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In too many cases, our local governments have become a kind of tollgate that business leaders must pay to cross into a community that has a lot to offer.
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And even Condé Nast, an organisation that had hitherto been rather sniffy about electronic editions, started to publish some of its prime properties such as the New Yorker, via the iTunes tollgate.
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In particular, its iTunes Store gives it control of the tollgate through which billions of paid-for music tracks and albums, videos and apps cascade down to millions of customers worldwide.
Forget Google – it's Apple that is turning into the evil empire | John Naughton 2011
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At the very last possible moment I am able to turn off onto the cash-paying lanes but I am blocked by the tollgate.
Lawrence Shulruff: My Wife's Purse, The Mini-Series Lawrence Shulruff 2011
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At the very last possible moment I am able to turn off onto the cash-paying lanes but I am blocked by the tollgate.
Lawrence Shulruff: My Wife's Purse, The Mini-Series Lawrence Shulruff 2011
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We would have a greater ability to invest here if we didn't have to pay a 'tollgate tax' to bring the cash home.
Why Investors Can't Get More Cash Out of U.S. Companies Jason Zweig 2011
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In Greenwich, Connecticut, turnpike owners did little more than set up a tollgate.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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In Greenwich, Connecticut, turnpike owners did little more than set up a tollgate.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Nonetheless, it would allow him to linger unnoticed for long periods of time by the tollgate that had been set up in front of the entrance to each collection of moving boxes.
Aching for Always Gwyn Cready 2010
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When the photographers finally succeed in getting her into the right lane, approaching the tollgate, the moment of human connection ends.
Shooting Britney 2008
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