"tollgate" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tollgates [plural]
Etymology: From toll + gate. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|toll|gate}} toll + gate Head templates: {{en-noun}} tollgate (plural tollgates)
  1. A barrier across a toll road or toll bridge that is lifted when the toll is paid Categories (topical): Roads Synonyms: tollbar Translations (Translations): 收费站 (shōufèi zhàn) (Chinese Mandarin), mýtná brána [feminine] (Czech), bom (Danish), barrière de péage (French), Schlagbaum [masculine] (German), Gebührenschranke [feminine] (German), bommi (Greenlandic), gardu tol (Indonesian), geata dola [masculine] (Irish), paidhc [feminine] (Irish), pedaggio (Italian), barriera [feminine] (Italian), 요금소 (yogeumso) (Korean), 톨게이트 (tolgeiteu) (Korean), pedágio [masculine] (Portuguese), barreira [feminine] (Portuguese), geata-càine [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), cachaileith-chìse [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), caseta de cobro [feminine] (Spanish), barera (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-tollgate-en-noun-hZIIakQc Disambiguation of Roads: 40 42 18 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greenlandic translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 4 7 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 87 7 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 86 6 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 90 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 72 8 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 89 4 7 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 75 13 12 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 82 9 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Greenlandic translations: 83 8 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 74 8 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 82 7 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 84 9 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 78 9 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 83 7 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 75 8 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 77 9 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 82 10 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 78 9 14

Verb

Forms: tollgates [present, singular, third-person], tollgating [participle, present], tollgated [participle, past], tollgated [past]
Etymology: From toll + gate. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|toll|gate}} toll + gate Head templates: {{en-verb}} tollgate (third-person singular simple present tollgates, present participle tollgating, simple past and past participle tollgated)
  1. (transitive) To furnish (a road) with a tollgate. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Roads
    Sense id: en-tollgate-en-verb-LujU4vaS Disambiguation of Roads: 40 42 18
  2. To perpetrate a form of corruption in which the recipient of a government contract must donate part of its value to the government. Categories (topical): Roads
    Sense id: en-tollgate-en-verb-jU1u3cQ8 Disambiguation of Roads: 40 42 18

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.