tollgate

IPA: tˈoʊɫgeɪt

A barrier across a toll road or toll bridge that is lifted when the toll is paid

Examples of "tollgate" in Sentences

In Greenwich, Connecticut, turnpike owners did little more than set up a tollgate.
We would have a greater ability to invest here if we didn't have to pay a 'tollgate tax' to bring the cash home.
At the very last possible moment I am able to turn off onto the cash-paying lanes but I am blocked by the tollgate.
When the photographers finally succeed in getting her into the right lane, approaching the tollgate, the moment of human connection ends.
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.
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.
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.
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.