railroad
an entire system of such roads together with its rolling stock, buildings, etc.; the entire railway plant, including fixed and movable property.
the company of persons owning or operating such a plant.
Bowling. a split.
railroads, stocks or bonds of railroad companies.
to transport by means of a railroad.
to supply with railroads.
Informal. to push (a law or bill) hastily through a legislature so that there is not time enough for objections to be considered.
Informal. to convict (a person) in a hasty manner by means of false charges or insufficient evidence: The prisoner insisted he had been railroaded.
to work on a railroad.
Origin of railroad
1Other words from railroad
- non·rail·road, adjective
- pre·rail·road, adjective
- pro·rail·road, adjective
- un·rail·road·ed, adjective
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How to use railroad in a sentence
These new lines may not carry the same romance of the old railroads.
For these railroads, fuel accounts for nearly one quarter of operating expenses.
And the transition will require railroads to make investments beyond new engines and LNG tenders.
Chicago was the center of meatpacking, railroads, and mechanized agriculture, the flagships of industrial capitalism.
He protected coal miners on strike—and cracked down on price—gouging railroads.
Who wants to peruse fictitious adventures, when railroads and steamboats woo him to adventures of his own?
People are busy ballooning or driving; shooting like stars along railroads; or migrating like swallows or wild-geese.
Railroads are reckless Radicals and are destined by turns to make and to mar the fortunes of many great emporiums.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe French Railroads are better in this respect, and the American cannot be worse, though the fault is not unknown there.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe chief outlay after paying for the mines would be for erecting stamping mills and making railroads.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis Trevithick
British Dictionary definitions for railroad
/ (ˈreɪlˌrəʊd) /
the usual US word for railway
(tr) informal to force (a person) into (an action) with haste or by unfair means
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