gated - What does it mean?

Adjective

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Capable of being switched on and off (normally by means of a signal).

Have a gate or other restricted access.

* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-07-27|volume=408|issue=8846|magazine=(The Economist)

|title= Architectural bombast |passage=Gated , gilded and gaudy, they have sprung up all over China: overwrought government buildings erected at vast public expense, and in stark contrast to the shoddy state of so many homes and schools. In style they range from modernist brutalism to Versailles kitsch.}}