paywall

CEFRC1

/ˈpeɪ.wɔːl/

noun

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

01
noun
A system that requires payment to access online content.
02
noun
Extra detail
To restrict access to (a website or other resource) by means of a paywall.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meaning

A system that restricts access to content with a purchase or a paid subscription.

In context

We've introduced a paywall.
Techdirt got wind of a secret meeting by newspaper execs, complete with antitrust lawyers, to discuss how to proceed on the issue of implementing paywalls going forward.

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

The word in print, with each source given in full.

Techdirt got wind of a secret meeting by newspaper execs, complete with antitrust lawyers, to discuss how to proceed on the issue of implementing paywalls going forward.
2009 May 29, ScuttleMonkey, “Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls”, in Slashdot
Scores of other newspapers started selling digital subscriptions in 2011, either with a paywall on their sites or by charging for mobile access with an e-reader app. […] Time magazine also set up a paywall in 2011, its second attempt in two years, […]
2012, Dennis F. Herrick, Media Management in the Age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism. Second Edition., UNM Press, →ISBN, page 332
As for the larger general-interest dailies, Long Island's Newsday was the first to erect its paywall, in October 2009. It allowed full access for subscribers to the print edition of the paper or the parent company Cablevision, or for people willing to pay $5 per week.
2015, Brian Gorman, Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 140

Looking a word up is the easy part. LexUp remembers which words you have met and brings them back at the point you were about to forget them.

From pay + wall, by analogy with firewall.