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Definition of tollbooth in English: tollbooth(also tolbooth) nounˈtəʊlbuːðˈtoʊlˌbuθ 1A roadside kiosk where drivers or pedestrians must pay to use a bridge or road. (路、桥的)收费亭,收费处 Example sentencesExamples - Now, one of the things that will definitely slow things down on this holiday weekend, as it does on a normal day, are tollbooths.
- Currently, the usage is below 2,000 vehicles, and the tolling ends up barely paying for - if it is paying for - the manning of the tollbooths.
- She told the audience that the idea for the show originated when she went through a tollbooth and anonymously paid for a number of cars behind her.
- They also took over a tollbooth on the Oaxaca-Cuacnopalan highway, and let vehicles pass without paying tolls.
- We were back on course and heading through a purple and yellow tollbooth by the time Louis spoke.
- Other networks are more sophisticated, like the new beltway around Toronto, a toll road without tollbooths: transponders, cameras, and license-plate numbers provide the billing information.
- Current practice tends to emphasize only vehicle-type differentiation, primarily for administrative ease in toll collection via tollbooths.
- When viewed in isolation, many new privacy invasions seem harmless to many Americans, who don't see why they should care that (for example) someone is recording the date and time that they drive through a tollbooth.
- Also, why is it that the brakes suddenly came back to life when he was approaching a tollbooth?
- In amongst the ranks of commuters' cars queuing up at the tollbooths were the vehicles of those who were heading north for a more adventurous weekend.
- It also agreed on a temporary freeze on the imposition of new highway tolls and the construction of new tollbooths.
- In another 20 minutes we had reached the final tollbooth.
- As I pulled in to the tollbooth, I was feeling pretty calm about the last hour and had no significant issues.
- They suggest that, for some considerable time, there will be a need for some non-electronic tollbooths to cater for the irregular users of the road.
- I'd much rather pay a higher gasoline tax at the pump than be forced to stop at tollbooths every few miles.
- The current Sydney locations all have traffic channelled into an established tollbooth or purpose built single lane.
- On your way to the airport, you are passing tollbooths while your transponder makes a record of where you are.
- The result is time saved and an end to the dangerous traffic queues that occur at tollbooths.
- There were 20 tollbooths at the toll station studied.
- In the northeast, we have this little box you put on your windshield that is detected every time you go through a tollbooth or over a toll bridge.
2Scottish archaic A town hall. 〈苏格兰,古〉市政厅 Example sentencesExamples - In 1833, it was moved to the centre of the village, and now stands sandwiched between a 16th-century tollbooth and a pillar bearing the arms of the Bruce family.
- Worth visiting amongst a plethora of architectural gems are the palace, the tollbooth and the abbey but most enjoyable of all are the little houses, randomly set against each other in an untidy straggle up the winding lanes.
- 2.1 A town jail.
〈苏格兰,古〉市政厅 Example sentencesExamples - In 1669, she and Butchart were thrown into the tollbooth and a trial was ordered.
- Caught up in a frenzy of 17th-century persecution, the elderly woman was thrown in the city's tollbooth and tortured before being executed.
- The location of the court and tollbooth of the Bishop was facing the Tuesday market, on the north side of Jews Lane, although no proven traces remain of this building.
- He put in his time as chamberlain 1350/51 and was jurat for most of the period between 1353 and 1361, as well as serving as bailiff of the tolbooth in 1360 / 61.
Synonyms prison, penal institution, place of detention, lock-up, place of confinement, guardhouse, correctional facility, detention centre
Definition of tollbooth in US English: tollboothnounˈtoʊlˌbuθˈtōlˌbo͞oTH A booth where drivers must pay to use a bridge or road. (路、桥的)收费亭,收费处 Example sentencesExamples - The current Sydney locations all have traffic channelled into an established tollbooth or purpose built single lane.
- Also, why is it that the brakes suddenly came back to life when he was approaching a tollbooth?
- They suggest that, for some considerable time, there will be a need for some non-electronic tollbooths to cater for the irregular users of the road.
- In amongst the ranks of commuters' cars queuing up at the tollbooths were the vehicles of those who were heading north for a more adventurous weekend.
- It also agreed on a temporary freeze on the imposition of new highway tolls and the construction of new tollbooths.
- Now, one of the things that will definitely slow things down on this holiday weekend, as it does on a normal day, are tollbooths.
- Other networks are more sophisticated, like the new beltway around Toronto, a toll road without tollbooths: transponders, cameras, and license-plate numbers provide the billing information.
- When viewed in isolation, many new privacy invasions seem harmless to many Americans, who don't see why they should care that (for example) someone is recording the date and time that they drive through a tollbooth.
- As I pulled in to the tollbooth, I was feeling pretty calm about the last hour and had no significant issues.
- Current practice tends to emphasize only vehicle-type differentiation, primarily for administrative ease in toll collection via tollbooths.
- In another 20 minutes we had reached the final tollbooth.
- There were 20 tollbooths at the toll station studied.
- In the northeast, we have this little box you put on your windshield that is detected every time you go through a tollbooth or over a toll bridge.
- On your way to the airport, you are passing tollbooths while your transponder makes a record of where you are.
- Currently, the usage is below 2,000 vehicles, and the tolling ends up barely paying for - if it is paying for - the manning of the tollbooths.
- She told the audience that the idea for the show originated when she went through a tollbooth and anonymously paid for a number of cars behind her.
- I'd much rather pay a higher gasoline tax at the pump than be forced to stop at tollbooths every few miles.
- The result is time saved and an end to the dangerous traffic queues that occur at tollbooths.
- They also took over a tollbooth on the Oaxaca-Cuacnopalan highway, and let vehicles pass without paying tolls.
- We were back on course and heading through a purple and yellow tollbooth by the time Louis spoke.
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