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单词 turnpike
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(tɜːʳnpaɪk)
Word forms: plural turnpikes
countable noun
A turnpike is a road, especially an expressway, which people have to pay to drive on.
[mainly US]

turnpike in British English

(ˈtɜːnˌpaɪk)
noun
1. (between the mid-16th and late 19th centuries)
a. 
gates or some other barrier set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
b. 
a road on which a turnpike was operated
2.  an obsolete word for turnstile (sense 1)
3.  US
a motorway for use of which a toll is charged
Word origin
C15: from turn + pike2

turnpike in American English

(ˈtɜrnˌpaɪk)
noun
1.  Obsolete
a turnstile
2. 
tollgate
3. 
a toll road, esp. one that is an expressway
Word origin
ME turnpyke, a spiked barrier across a road: see turn & pike4

Examples of 'turnpike' in a sentence
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Seven miles beyond the turnpike, Thorn pulled into a complex of low, windowless buildings.
James W. Hall BLACKWATER SOUND (2003)
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