Meanings
nounage-gating (plural age-gatings)
plural age-gatings
- InternetThe practice of establishing age gates.
Five million extra online age checks a day are being carried out in the UK since the introduction of age-gating for pornography sites, according to new data.
2025 July 30, Dan Milmo, “UK online safety law leads to 5m extra age checks a day for pornography sites”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Cite this entry
APA
age-gating. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/age-gating
MLA
“age-gating.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/age-gating. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “age-gating,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/age-gating.
Source: age-gating on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.