0 a device that controls the way into or out of a building, room, or area of land, especially one that you have to pay to enter. It is a post with a number of short poles sticking out from it that have to be pushed round as each person walks through the entrance: --
The number of spectators going through the turnstiles is up from last season.
1 a device with waist-high horizontal bars that one person at a time can push around to enter a place, esp. a place that you pay to use: --
Take away the turnstiles and the high walls, throw open as much as you can, and lock up as little as you can.
It is not merely the amount taken at the turnstiles.
The fact was that they had to pass through turnstiles.
Before it introduced charges, it made people go through turnstiles so it knows exactly how many people visited.
Forty-six authorities have refused to remove their turnstiles and eight have removed some and retained others.
Fifty authorities have refused to remove any turnstiles; nine have removed some turnstiles but are keeping others.
I am informed that only two public conveniences on railway premises have turnstiles.
One of these has only one turnstile, and it is in a lavatory which is closed.