railroad

IPA: rˈeɪɫroʊd

(chiefly US) A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
(chiefly US) The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
(chiefly US) A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
(figuratively) A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
A borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, so-named for the Northern Central Railway.
A township in Starke County, Indiana, United States.

(transitive) To transport via railroad.
(intransitive) To operate a railroad.
(intransitive) To work for a railroad.
(intransitive) To travel by railroad.
(intransitive) To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
(transitive) To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
(transitive) To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
(transitive) To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
(roleplaying games) To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.
(upholstery) To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.

Examples of "railroad" in Sentences

This is what they call the railroad's infrastructure.
As I have suggested, the railroad is a public function.
With this system we arrive at a railroad of successive stoppages, to a _negative railroad_.
The railroad is recommending that passengers use Port Washington trains to get into the city.
This system furnishes us the idea of a railroad made up of successive breaks; _a negative railroad_.
We will, however, continue sending these items via horseback until such time as the railroad is able to cross the Appalachian mountains.
The railroad is adding extra trains on that line to accommodate passengers from other parts of Long Island who might drive to its stations.
Just like investments in railroad systems and highways transformed societies over the past two centuries, broadband networks can do the same for societies in the new millennium.
We've met some wonderful fellows in North Charleston who maintain what they call a railroad museum inside of which they operate hundreds of scale miles of tracks over which they dispatch their colorful authentic electric trains.
I had great difficulty in extorting any information from that three-fourths wild man, who gazed at me suspiciously, in ambush behind his goat-skin _pelone_; he did tell me, however, unintentionally, what the Corsicans understand by the term railroad, and why they assume this mysterious manner when they mention it.