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paywalled

paywalled adjective: having a paywall; requiring payment for access. Also the simple past and past participle of paywall.

Adjective

paywalled (not comparable)

  1. (Internet) Having a paywall; requiring payment for access.
    • Near-synonyms: subscription (attributively); pay-to-play (of video games)
    • […] suggesting that the paywalled online news models currently pursued by the Australian News Ltd and its international parent NewsCorp were unworkable and based on outdated ideas […]2012, Eugenia Siapera, Andreas Veglis, The Handbook of Global Online Journalism, page 415

Also used as

paywalled is also the simple past and past participle of paywall.

Synonyms of paywalled

Antonyms

Origin of paywalled

From paywall + -ed.

Questions about paywalled

What does paywalled mean?
Paywalled means having a paywall; requiring payment for access.
What part of speech is paywalled?
Paywalled is an adjective.

Words near paywalled in the dictionary

  1. paytriot
  2. paytriots
  3. payts.
  4. PAYU
  5. paywall
  6. paywalled
  7. paywalling
  8. paywalls
  9. payware
  10. payyetan
  11. payyetanim

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