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🚧 A content barrier 🚧 To restrict access
to paywall

to paywall

1 4.8
To stop people from reading online articles unless they pay
  • verb
  • /ˈpeɪˌwɔl/
  • Texting
: poner detrás de un muro de pago
  • If you want to read the full report, you must paywall before gaining access to the details.

Examples

  • The only thing he doesn't really provide you with is all the poll data, because some of it is paywalled subscriptions and he would probably be sued if he published it.

    Blog text (10)

  • While everyone deserves to get paid for their work, sometimes you just need one or two articles from a paywalled source, or you go over your free quota at the end of the month.

    Blog text (11)

  • Haaretz journalist Akiva Eldar writes (paywalled) that, according to the Israeli government's own figures, non-Jews outnumber Jews in the land under Israeli control:

    Blog text (17)

  • Many news websites now paywall their articles, requiring a subscription to read them.

  • To access the latest research, you need to paywall your account for full content privileges.

Synonyms

to restrict
vsto paywall
188 3.1

Limit how much people can use or access something

focuses on charging for access online rather than general limitation
to gate
vsto paywall
  • Texting
1 7.0

To make online content available only after payment or a login

requires payment or subscription specifically rather than other access conditions

How Restricted

to restrict
188 3.1
to paywall
  • Texting
1 4.8
to access
469 3.4

Surface Forms

paywall infinitive
paywalled past
paywalled past participle
paywalling present participle
paywalls third person singular

Etymology

To paywall something comes from pay ('to give money') and wall ('barrier'). So to paywall an article is to put a money 'barrier' around it, meaning people must pay to read it.