tollgate
verbEtymology From toll + gate.
1
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.
- Related terms
- kick back
tollgate
nounEtymology From toll + gate.
1
A barrier across a toll road or toll bridge that is lifted when the toll is paid
- Colonel George Rice Trevor testified that the Rebeccas attacked poor-houses as well as tollgates.2019, Marsha R. Robinson, Disobedient Histories in Ancient and Modern Times, page 82:
- Related terms
- toll booth, toll-collector, tollhouse, tolltaker