Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To furnish (a road) with a tollgate.

  2. To perpetrate a form of corruption in which the recipient of a government contract must donate part of its value to the government.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. We're coming up to a tollgate.

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  2. There's a tollgate ahead.

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Forms

tollgates, tollgating, tollgated, tollgated
Base formtollgate · to tollgate
3rd person singulartollgates
Present participletollgating
Past simpletollgated
Past participletollgated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytollgate
he, she, ittollgates

Past simpleLesson

all personstollgated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tollgated
he, she, ithas tollgated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tollgate

Word family

1 related words
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Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tolerantB2tolerateB2tollB2tomtomatomahawk
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