paywall
Speech parts
1. paywall - Noun
2. paywall - Verb
Meaning
paywall (plural paywalls)
(informal, computing) A feature of a website, application or service that only allows access to certain content or functions upon payment.
paywall (third-person singular simple present paywalls, present participle paywalling, simple past and past participle paywalled)
(informal, computing, transitive) To restrict access to (a website or other resource) by means of a paywall.
Examples
Anyone got a link to the CDC report being referenced behind this paywall?
A dedicated search engine will store the posts (and those behind the paywall too) in a particularly search-friendly way, in order to retrieve the text and the post ID, without scanning the entire database.
Another successful paywall publisher, The New York Times, has taken several years to get to 2.6 million digital-only subscriptions, or 3 percent of its digital traffic, according to the Times and comScore data.
An editor has hit out at readers who have abused his journalists over their newspaper’s online paywall.
From April 16–30, the paywall will drop on tabloids The Province, Toronto Sun, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Sun, Ottawa Sun, and Winnipeg Sun.
However, Islanders shouldn’t discover that we’ve been volunteered as a testbed by receiving second-hand reports from behind the paywall of the Daily Telegraph.