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What is the noun for turnpike?

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turnpike
  1. A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
  2. A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid; a tollgate.
  3. (Scotland) A winding stairway.
  4. (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
  5. A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
  6. (mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “I decided to take the scenic route and drove down the picturesque turnpike, enjoying the view of the rolling hills and lush countryside.”
turnpikes
  1. plural of turnpike
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The development of the turnpikes would not have been possible without a great expansion of inland consumption, trade, and capital.”
      “The carriageway profiles of the majority of Aberdeenshire turnpikes had a fall from the centre of the carriageway to the sides.”
      “How, for instance, would this system of turnpikes be regulated, if not by cameras?”
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