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tollgate

tollgate noun: a barrier across a toll road or toll bridge that is lifted when the toll is paid.

Noun

tollgate (plural tollgates)

  1. A barrier across a toll road or toll bridge that is lifted when the toll is paid
    • Colonel George Rice Trevor testified that the Rebeccas attacked poor-houses as well as tollgates.2019, Marsha R. Robinson, Disobedient Histories in Ancient and Modern Times, page 82

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.
  2. To perpetrate a form of corruption in which the recipient of a government contract must donate part of its value to the government.

Proper noun capitalized: Tollgate

Tollgate

  1. A purok in the sitio of Camp 6, barangay of Camp Four, Tuba, Benguet, Philippines.
    • In a concerted effort to enhance environmental sustainability and community engagement, a successful tree planting event was conducted at the Tollgate area in Camp 6. [...] Overall, the tree planting activity at Tollgate, Camp 6, was a significant stride towards ecological sustainability and...2025 July 14, Barangay Camp Four-Tuba, Facebook
    • A portion of Kennon Road near the Upper Tollgate, Camp 6, Tuba, Benguet, is currently NOT PASSABLE following a landslide and rockslide triggered by the continuous rains brought by Emong.2025 July 25, GURU Press Cordillera, Facebook

tollgate meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati and Odia

tollgate in Tamil

Translations
சுங்கச்சாலை cuṅkaccālai, சுங்கச்சாவடி cuṅkaccāvaṭi

tollgate in Kannada

ಸುಂಕದ ಕಟ್ಟೆ

tollgate in Gujarati

tollgate
જકાતનાકું jakātnākũ

tollgate in Odia

tollgate
ଘାଟ ghāṭa
More languagesFewer languages
tollgate in Tagalog
barera
tollgate in Indonesian
gardu tol

Synonyms of tollgate

Forms of tollgate

Noun
pluraltollgates
Verb
third-person singular presenttollgates
present participletollgating
past participletollgated
pasttollgated

Origin of tollgate

From toll + gate.

Named after the tollgate of Kennon Road which is located in the area.

Questions about tollgate

What does tollgate mean?
Tollgate means a barrier across a toll road or toll bridge that is lifted when the toll is paid.
What is tollgate in Tamil?
Tollgate in Tamil is சுங்கச்சாலை (cuṅkaccālai), சுங்கச்சாவடி (cuṅkaccāvaṭi). See Tollgate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tollgate?
Tollgate can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of tollgate?
The plural of tollgate is tollgates.

Words near tollgate in the dictionary

  1. Tollett
  2. Tolletts
  3. tolley
  4. tolleys
  5. tollfree
  6. tollgate
  7. tollgated
  8. tollgates
  9. tollgatherer
  10. tollgatherers
  11. tollgating

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tollgate (page history and authors); Tollgate (page history and authors); tollgate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); જકાતનાકું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଘାଟ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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