e-gate
nounEtymology From e- + gate.
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An electronic immigration gate at an airport, using biometrics etc.
- […] currently trialling e-gates at Manchester Airport […]2009, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee, The future of aviation: first report of session 2009-10, volume 2, page 303:
- For arrivals, there are 52 arrival passport counters and 12 e-gates […]2011, Norman J. Ashford, Saleh Mumayiz, Paul H. Wright, Airport Engineering, page 695:
2 more examples
- The outage was the latest in a long line of failures of the e-gate system.2024 May 8, Jack Simpson, Rajeev Syal, “What went wrong with the electronic passport gates at UK airports?”, in The Guardian:
- British tourists will have to endure passport-stamping queues in the EU until at least October and possibly well into 2026 despite a high profile e-gates agreement unveiled at Monday’s EU-UK summit in London, it has emerged.2025 May 20, Lisa O'Carroll, Jessica Elgot, Sam Jones, Kiran Stacey, “Britons will not be able to use e-gates in EU until October at earliest”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Related terms
- e-passport