toll roads
- plural of toll road.
Example Sentences
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Another moral is that better infrastructure boosts economic growth, and if you don’t have the money to pay for it upfront, you can get private investors to do so instead: witness Lagos’s toll-roads and bridges.
From Economist • Jul. 2, 2015
Eight of the country’s nine female billionaires inherited their wealth from their fathers or husbands: two of the nine are the daughters of Brazil’s biggest toll-roads magnate.
From Economist • Jun. 13, 2013
Municipalities had previously been permitted to bonus or take stock in railways and toll-roads, but their securities were unknown in the world's markets.
From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas
Just as the first railways had been called toll-roads, so the telephone was solemnly declared to be a telegraph.
From The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert Newton
