Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To imprison in a tollbooth.
- noun A booth, stall, or office where tolls, taxes, or duties are collected.
- noun A town jail: so called with reference to the fact that the tollbooth or temporary hut of boards erected in fairs and markets, in which the customs or duties were collected, was often used as a place of confinement or detention for such as did not pay, or were chargeable with some breach of the law in buying or selling; hence, any prison.
- noun A town hall.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To imprison in a tollbooth.
- noun obsolete A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.
- noun In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
toll booth .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls
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Examples
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Level 3 Communications, a Colorado-based Internet company whose main client is the movie-rental service Netflix, said Monday that Comcast's action amounts to setting up a "tollbooth" on the Internet.
Level 3 Communications calls Comcast feesfor Netflix feeds unfair Cecilia Kang 2010
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Level 3 Communications, a Colorado-based Internet company whose main client is the movie-rental service Netflix, said Monday that Comcast's action amounts to setting up a "tollbooth" on the Internet.
Level 3 Communications calls Comcast feesfor Netflix feeds unfair Cecilia Kang 2010
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Level 3 Communications, a Colorado-based Internet company whose main client is the movie-rental service Netflix, said Monday that Comcast's action amounts to setting up a "tollbooth" on the Internet.
Level 3 Communications calls Comcast feesfor Netflix feeds unfair Cecilia Kang 2010
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Level 3 Communications, a Colorado-based Internet company whose main client is the movie-rental service Netflix, said Monday that Comcast's action amounts to setting up a "tollbooth" on the Internet.
Level 3 Communications calls Comcast feesfor Netflix feeds unfair Cecilia Kang 2010
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I mean, if I look out the car window I see the tollbooth, which is how I know we’re coming up to the Rhinecliff Bridge.
DANI NOIR NOVA REN SUMA 2009
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I mean, if I look out the car window I see the tollbooth, which is how I know we’re coming up to the Rhinecliff Bridge.
DANI NOIR NOVA REN SUMA 2009
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I mean, if I look out the car window I see the tollbooth, which is how I know we’re coming up to the Rhinecliff Bridge.
DANI NOIR NOVA REN SUMA 2009
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The main beneficiaries of the arrangements were the Hanseatic League cities and their Hanse merchants (which/who controlled the trade), and the Danish crown (which controlled the "tollbooth" at the straits).
RedState 2009
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The "tollbooth" analogy is imperfect because traffic through the public peering points is free.
Nemertes Research - Independence, Integrity, Insight JonathanBlock 2008
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Sidewalk with a tollbooth: Dan Snyder's latest idea to gouge fans at FedEx Field.
Week 888: Make up a word based on someone's name The Empress 2010
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