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street railway

noun

  1. a company that operates streetcars or buses.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of street railway1

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
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Example Sentences

The street railway stock he was still carrying; its regular income furnished a safe fund to fall back upon.

My speech at the opening of the first street-railway in the Old World will appear in my forthcoming book of speeches.

“Your wife is a beauty,” said the street-railway magnate, looking down the disorganized table toward her.

"The papers are all calling for Mather as street-railway president," she went on.

He had been approached only by Pease, who inquired: "Have you any street-railway stock?"

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