e-gate

English

Etymology

From e- +‎ gate.

Noun

e-gate (plural e-gates)

  1. An electronic immigration gate at an airport, using biometrics etc.
    • 2009, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee, The future of aviation: first report of session 2009-10, volume 2, page 303:
      […] currently trialling e-gates at Manchester Airport […]
    • 2011, Norman J. Ashford, Saleh Mumayiz, Paul H. Wright, Airport Engineering, page 695:
      For arrivals, there are 52 arrival passport counters and 12 e-gates […]
    • 2024 May 8, Jack Simpson, Rajeev Syal, “What went wrong with the electronic passport gates at UK airports?”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      The outage was the latest in a long line of failures of the e-gate system.
    • 2025 May 20, Lisa O'Carroll, Jessica Elgot, Sam Jones, Kiran Stacey, “Britons will not be able to use e-gates in EU until October at earliest”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
      British tourists will have to endure passport-stamping queues in the EU until at least October and possibly well into 2026 despite a high profile e-gates agreement unveiled at Monday’s EU-UK summit in London, it has emerged.

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