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- noun Plural form of
tollgate .
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Examples
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In exchange, states granted them the right to place tollgates every few miles, and to collect various fees for each type of traveler wishing to use the road.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Where the new pay roads met the old free ones, people often circumvented the tollgates a practice called “shun-piking” that, in one humble opinion, would have been more cleverly termed “spurn-piking”.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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In exchange, states granted them the right to place tollgates every few miles, and to collect various fees for each type of traveler wishing to use the road.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Where the new pay roads met the old free ones, people often circumvented the tollgates a practice called “shun-piking” that, in one humble opinion, would have been more cleverly termed “spurn-piking”.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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In exchange, states granted them the right to place tollgates every few miles, and to collect various fees for each type of traveler wishing to use the road.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Where the new pay roads met the old free ones, people often circumvented the tollgates a practice called “shun-piking” that, in one humble opinion, would have been more cleverly termed “spurn-piking”.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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It could tear onto an eight lane freeway, swerving wildly lane to lane in a mad dash westward, cracking tollgates like toothpicks the whole way.
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* Much of the concerns many of us have had about tollgates on the Internet and an end to open interconnection will evaporate since the barrier to providing Internet access will be much lower and the power of the existing cable-telco duopoly diluted.
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And we will openly agree to and we are more than willing to have government oversight with very specific benchmarks with very specific tollgates that the government would put in place relative to how the funds would be used, measurement of our success on a monthly, quarterly basis, and demonstrating our commitment that our plan really, really has accountability and viability, Wolf.
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RFID is the technology used now to automate toll taking at bridges and tunnels; drivers are given a small plastic box with an RFID chip inside, allowing them to drive through the tollgates without stopping.
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