toll bridge
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- noun
- /toʊl brɪdʒ/
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puente de peaje
- After the construction of the toll bridge, the city saw an increase in revenue from the fees collected.
- state toll bridges
- seven toll bridges
- other toll bridges
Examples
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Together they shared business interests, such as those mentioned above, as well as investments in such enterprises as the building of a local toll bridge and the Fifth Massachusetts Turnpike, and together they were active and successful in promoting Greenfield as the seat for the newly created Franklin County in 1812.
Academic text (1993) -
The new toll bridge charges a fee for all vehicles crossing it.
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Make it a toll bridge.
Blog text (13) -
The user's tax of a toll bridge falls only on those who use the bridge.
Blog text (16) -
It's a, a toll bridge, a drawbridge that the boats go under.
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501 United Fruit Boulevard, via the General Garcia toll bridge.
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Earlier this year, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Canadian officials unveiled a long-awaited infrastructure plan that seemed almost too good to be true for Michigan taxpayers: the cost of a new toll bridge between the two entities would be entirely fronted by Canada.
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Travelers must pay a fee when using the toll bridge to access the highway on the other side.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a bridge over which a fee is charged' is directly and compositionally built from 'toll' (a fee for using a road/bridge) + 'bridge' (a span for crossing); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the compound's meaning. This is a regular noun+noun compound pattern found cross-linguistically (e.g. toll road), so it is immediately transparent rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Toll bridge comes from the old practice of stopping people at a bridge to collect a toll, a small 'fee', before they could cross the bridge. That's why toll bridge today means 'a bridge you must pay to use'.