toll road

noun

1. a road or highway on which a toll is exacted.

Word History and Origins

Origin of toll road¹

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

A private debt collector would go after delinquent toll road users with letters, phone calls and possibly threats to report the debt to credit reports, he said.

From Washington Post

To the east, it ended at the river, and to the west it became the Little River Turnpike, a recently completed toll road that connected northern Virginia’s grain and tobacco farms to the port of Alexandria and, by extension, to the Atlantic economy.

From Time

Immigration agents have accessed information from a private database of license-plate readers, which have logged billions of records related to vehicle locations from scanners on tow trucks, toll roads and speed-limit cameras.

From Washington Post

Macquarie has been involved in bankruptcies on toll roads in San Diego and Indiana, with the failures attributed to the Great Recession and unrealistic traffic and revenue forecasts.

From Washington Post

People are driving less and skipping the toll roads, leaving less money for local projectsThe company has a 75-year concession with Virginia to operate the express lanes and collect toll revenue.

From Washington Post

Recently, Surfrider invoked an economic argument against a proposed toll road near Trestles, off the Southern California coast.

From The Daily Beast

Wooton had some kind of permit or authority from the government for building this road and was authorized to make it a toll road.

From Project Gutenberg

She turned Bess' head toward the toll road and began to climb the steep three miles to Inspiration Point.

From Project Gutenberg

The road was a toll-road, but its general condition was hardly such, as to justify the collection of tolls ordinarily.

From Project Gutenberg

It became known as the “Shun” Pike because those who traversed it shunned the toll road.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1856 he surveyed and built the toll road across the Siskiyou mountains.

From Project Gutenberg