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Definition pay wall in British English

pay wall noun

noun
1

a pay wall blocks access to a website so that some content can be viewed only by paid-up subscribers

Example

Its strategy is to hide just enough news stories behind pay walls to entice 5 percent or 10 percent of readers into subscriptions ...

Definition pay wall in British English