toll plaza
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3.2
- noun
- /toʊl ˈplɑːzə/
:
plaza de peaje
- Vehicles lined up at the toll plaza, waiting to pay the toll before continuing their journey.
- pass through the toll plaza
- lanes at the toll plaza
- toll plaza traffic
Examples
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And their first impression of Maine won't be a traffic logjam at the York toll plaza.
Blog text (31) -
By the time she reached the toll plaza for the Long Island Expressway, she'd actually begun to sing softly to herself.
Fiction book (1996) -
I was coming up to the toll plaza.
Blog text (8) -
It's over by the toll plaza.
Blog text (1) -
And no, Tom, it is not over by the toll plaza, nor is it "near the dog park" as city officials will tell you.
Blog text (1) -
People would have needed to go through the toll plaza to get off the freeway.
Blog text (12) -
Transportation officials also said it would take at least six months to restripe the toll plaza.
Blog text (13) -
They realized that the exit ramp they built came off in front of the toll plaza for the turnpike when they finished the booth.
Blog text (12) -
Once I got past the first toll plaza, I opened her up past one twenty, and Will leaned over to get a good look at the speedometer, then sat back.
Fiction book (2002) -
Even they were confronting problems with managing correctly the toll plazas where we were experiencing revenue leakage.
Synonyms
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2.7
A small building where drivers stop to pay to use a road, bridge, or tunnel
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6.9
A small building near a road or bridge where people pay to pass
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5.1
A gate across a road where drivers pay a fee to pass
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
toll + plaza
The meaning is directly compositional: 'toll' (a fee for road use) combined with 'plaza' (an area or space) yields an area where tolls are collected. This noun–noun location compound follows common English patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can predict the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Toll plaza comes from the image of cars stopping in lanes at small booths to pay. The word toll means a small 'fee' for using the road and plaza means an open area, so a toll plaza is the place where drivers stop to pay on a highway.