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rail·road (rāl′rōd′)
noun
- a road laid with parallel steel rails along which cars carrying passengers or freight are drawn by locomotives
- a complete system of such roads, including land, rolling stock, stations, etc.
- the persons or corporation owning and managing such a system
transitive verb
- ☆ to transport by railroad
- ☆ Informal to rush through quickly, esp. so quickly as to prevent careful consideration to railroad a bill through Congress
- ☆ Slang to cause to go to prison on a trumped-up charge or with too hasty a trial
intransitive verb
Related Forms:
- railroader rail′·road′er noun
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railroad
n.
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Converse of object
- build: Examples include building a railroad, or a factory, clearing land, or putting oneself through college.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- through: This has led to crisis year after year where cuts have been proposed and railroaded through.
Adjective modifier
- transcontinental: Want to create a race to complete a transcontinental railroad in 30 years using only steam engines?
Modifies a noun
- ty: Would you believe that they are now going to ban railroad sleepers ( railroad ties )?
Noun used with modifier
- island: River explorer was island railroad company paul on the.
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There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewelldivine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningöApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light You enterprised a railroadyou blasted its rocks away And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.
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