paywall

or pay wall

[ pey-wawl ]

noun
  1. 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.

  2. the part of a website that can be accessed only by paid subscribers.

verb (used with object)
  1. to restrict access to (all or part of a website) to paid subscribers: Here’s an abstract, but the full article is paywalled.

Origin of paywall

1
First recorded in 2005–10; pay1 + (fire)wall

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