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tollgate Definition

toll·gate (tōl′gāt′)

noun

a gate for stopping travel at a point where tolls are taken

tollgate Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • allow: This continued for 21 years, the length of time the Act of Parliament that allowed the tollgates was in force.
  • approach: As each vehicle approached the tollgates, the crowd urged the driver not to pay the toll.
  • show: The map ( right ) shows the tollgate at the roadside.

Adjective modifier

  • single: For a time, in 1734, not a single tollgate was left standing between Bristol and Gloucester.

Modifies a noun

  • bathroom: Tollgate Bathrooms are the South Wales leaders in bathroom wall paneling.