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age-gate

age-gate verb: to add an age gate to (content on the Internet).

Verb

age-gate (third-person singular simple present age-gates, present participle age-gating, simple past and past participle age-gated)

  1. (transitive) To add an age gate to (content on the Internet).
    • Free speech campaigners have said the child-harm content restrictions have led to material on X being age-gated unnecessarily, along with some forums on Reddit including one dedicated to tackling alcohol abuse.2025 July 30, Dan Milmo, “UK online safety law leads to 5m extra age checks a day for pornography sites”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of age-gate

third-person singular presentage-gates
present participleage-gating
past participleage-gated
pastage-gated

Words formed from age-gate

Questions about age-gate

What does age-gate mean?
Age-gate means to add an age gate to (content on the Internet).
What part of speech is age-gate?
Age-gate is a verb.
What is the past tense of age-gate?
The past tense of age-gate is age-gated.

Words near age-gate in the dictionary

  1. age standardized rates
  2. age up
  3. age-adjustment
  4. age-during
  5. age-fright
  6. age-gate
  7. age-gated
  8. age-gates
  9. age-gating
  10. age-long
  11. age-mate

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