railroad
IPA: rˈeɪɫroʊd
noun
- (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.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "railroad" in Sentences
- The railroad and the city split the cost.
- Brushaber was a stockholder in the railroad.
- The railroad was no niggard to its servants.
- A Pennsylvania railroad is in the background.
- The landslide closed the railroad for months.
- The increase was tied to the coming of the railroad.
- The coming of the railroad invigorated the community.
- This is what they call the railroad's infrastructure.
- As I have suggested, the railroad is a public function.
- Construction of the railroad was done by subcontractors.
- Brushaber, the appellant, was a stockholder in the railroad.
- The railroad used barges to move the trains across the river.
- 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.