tollbooth
noun
toll·booth
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Definition of tollbooth
: a booth (as on a highway or bridge) where tolls are paid
Examples of tollbooth in a Sentence
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The entrance will feature all-electronic tolling, so there will be no tollbooths. — Rafael Olmeda, Sun-Sentinel.com, "Turnpike entrance at Sunrise Blvd to go all-electronic," 21 June 2018 To put it bluntly, there are cameras nearly everywhereâon roads, on tollbooths, on homes and other dwellings, and even on people through their iPhones and smartphones. — Michael Mccann, SI.com, "Could Kellen Winslow Jr.'s Attorneys Use Football-Induced Brain Injury as Defense for Alleged Crimes?," 16 June 2018 Immediately after passing the townâs tollbooth, signs advertising gold dealers and mining equipmentâin both English and Chineseâcrowd the streets, vastly outnumbering the fading billboards for cocoa fertilizer. — Marisa Schwartz Taylor, National Geographic, "Illegal Gold Mining Boom Threatens Cocoa Farmers (And Your Chocolate)," 6 Mar. 2018 Mounted on police cruisers, tow trucks, tollbooths, and elsewhere, license-plate readers are capable of snapping photos of thousands of license plates every hour. — Pete Bigelow, Car and Driver, "License-Plate Readers May Help Target Illegal Immigrants, Or You," 31 Jan. 2018 The fireplace is all that remains of the paymaster's tollbooth of the old Bluestone Quarry of the early 20th century. — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, "South Euclid mourns the death of Pam O'Toole, a woman who 'cared a whole awful lot'," 30 Jan. 2018 Or shift your gaze and register, instead, the half-dozen or so transmission towers to the north of the tollbooths. — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, "Morning commute by bus offers new outlook," 20 Dec. 2017 The bus curves to the west and touches down on the right edge of the multilane approach to the tollbooths. — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, "Morning commute by bus offers new outlook," 20 Dec. 2017 The group relies on a vast network of informers: watchmen, storekeepers, villagers, tollbooth operators. — Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, "Indiaâs Vigilante Cow Protectors: âIf Police Did Their Job, We Wouldnât Have Toâ," 11 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tollbooth.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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tollbooth
noun
English Language Learners Definition of tollbooth
: a small building where you pay a toll to use a road or bridge
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