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tollway

tollway

3 3.7
A road you must pay to use
  • noun
  • /ˈtoʊlˌweɪ/
  • US
translation icon : autopista de peaje
  • On Wednesday, workers removed barricades at entrances and exits on the new 41-mile-long section of the Texas 130 tollway south of Austin, and drivers began doing something they've never done legally in Texas: go 85 mph.
  • tollway authority
  • tollway lanes
  • build the tollway

Examples

  • Note: the Chicago Skyway is not, never was, and never will be part of the Illinois Tollway System.

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  • Robertson is only 20 minutes from Katy if you take the tollway.

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  • Each time I drive my car on the tollway, I see the sign with the statistic for auto-related fatalities year-to-date.

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  • I-88 was built because the bonds that had paid for building the I-294 tollway were almost paid off, and without debt to service, the tollbooths would have come down.

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  • Drivers must pay a fee to access the tollway during their commute to work.

  • Many travelers prefer the tollway because it is faster than other routes.

  • The new tollway has significantly reduced travel time between the cities.

Synonyms

turnpike
vstollway
  • US
33 6.1

A main road where you pay a toll to travel

is the general paid road word and applies beyond main express routes
toll road
vstollway
7 2.5

A road you must pay to drive on, often a highway

has identical meaning but is a different common term for the same road

Surface Forms

tollway singular
tollways plural

Morphology

tollway = toll + way (transparent) = toll + way

The meaning follows directly from 'toll' + 'way': a road for which users pay a toll.

Etymology

Tollway comes from two simple parts: toll meaning 'fee' and way meaning 'road'. So a tollway is a road where drivers must pay a fee to use it.