tollbooth

IPA: tˈoʊɫbuθ

noun

  • (Scotland) (In this sense usually spelt tolbooth) The traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines.
  • Alternative spelling of toll booth [A booth on a toll road or toll bridge where the toll is collected.]
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Examples of "tollbooth" in Sentences

  • Sidewalk with a tollbooth: Dan Snyder's latest idea to gouge fans at FedEx Field.
  • The "tollbooth" analogy is imperfect because traffic through the public peering points is free.
  • I mean, if I look out the car window I see the tollbooth, which is how I know we’re coming up to the Rhinecliff Bridge.
  • Level 3 Communications, a Colorado-based Internet company whose main client is the movie-rental service Netflix, said Monday that Comcast's action amounts to setting up a "tollbooth" on the Internet.
  • The main beneficiaries of the arrangements were the Hanseatic League cities and their Hanse merchants (which/who controlled the trade), and the Danish crown (which controlled the "tollbooth" at the straits).

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