toll booth

Turnpike payment station

A toll booth is a small structure at a road, bridge, or tunnel where drivers stop to pay a fee for passage.

Traditionally staffed by a human collector, many toll booths now use automated systems or electronic transponders: We slowed down at the toll booth.

Also spelled as one word: tollbooth.

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E-ZPass · congestion pricing · lane · dynamic pricing · window · gate · cash · tray · highway robbery · coin · collection · interstate · barrier · bypass · stop and go · slow down · ticket office · crossing

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payment requirement

toll boothfreeway

Highway without tolls

open road · free passage · public road

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tollbooth, tollbooths

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Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G