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casellante

toll booth operator

noun kah-zel-LAHN-teh Rare
People & Society Professions

Usage Note

Casellante is both masculine and feminine — the gender is shown only by the article (il casellante, la casellante). It refers specifically to the person staffing a toll booth (casello autostradale) or a railway level-crossing box. As automated tolls replace human operators, the word is becoming less common in everyday speech.

Examples

"Il casellante mi ha dato il resto."

Natural Translation

The toll operator gave me the change.

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