: a booth (as on a highway or bridge) where tolls are paid
Examples of tollbooth in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThe real world is the mind-blowingly elaborate fiction of jobs, cellphones, forks, tollbooths, Hulu passwords, and dental appointments that engulfs us every day and consumes us completely.—James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024 The two prison guards who died in the attack last month, at a highway tollbooth about 85 miles northwest of Paris, were the first to be killed in the line of duty in 32 years.—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 5 June 2024 There’s the small toy car and purple tollbooth.—Isaac Fitzgerald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2021 Today, license plate scanners are commonly used on highways as a replacement for tollbooths, but law enforcement use of the devices has been a source of public concern for years.—Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023 See all Example Sentences for tollbooth
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English tolbothe, tollbothe tollbooth, town hall, jail, from tol, toll toll + bothe booth
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