paywall
or pay wall
[pey-wawl]
- a system in which access to all or part of a website is restricted to paid subscribers: Some newspapers have put their content behind a paywall.
- the part of a website that can be accessed only by paid subscribers.
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Origin of paywall
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Contemporary Examples
Have you tried to access the research that your tax dollars finance, almost all of which is kept behind a paywall?
He would more than likely have supported some form of paywall.
By putting up a paywall, it has told online readers that they will have to pay.
I can read it here, because I have a pass, but you might just get the paywall if you click through.
If your content is behind a paywall, I will get my news elsewhere.