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View synonyms for tollgate

tollgate

[ tohl-geyt ]

noun

  1. a gate where a toll is collected.


tollgate

/ ˈtɒl-; ˈtəʊlˌɡeɪt /

noun

  1. a gate across a toll road or bridge at which travellers must stop and pay
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tollgate1

First recorded in 1765–75; toll 1 + gate 1
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Example Sentences

Protesters at a tollgate in the upmarket Lagos district of Lekki were shot at by men that witnesses said were soldiers.

From Reuters

In Lagos on Wednesday afternoon, traffic flowed through the Lekki tollgate, where young people demonstrating against police brutality were gunned down by security forces in 2020.

The nationwide #EndSARS protests, which garnered global attention, led to police opening fire on peaceful protesters and killing at least 15 people at Lagos’s Lekki tollgate.

Demonstrators in peaceful protests against police brutality were themselves shot dead by security forces in 2020 as they sang and waved the flag by a tollgate in Lekki, an upmarket Lagos suburb.

Taiwo, insisted that the troops at the tollgate “strictly followed” the army’s rules of engagement for internal security.

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