railroad.
A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
Meaning & usage
A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land or water roads.
The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each other.
A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.
Where this word comes from
From rail + road.
To transport via railroad.
To operate a railroad.
The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly.
To work for a railroad.
She used to railroad for the Southern Pacific.
To travel by railroad.
To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections.
To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.
To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.
To force players to follow the dungeon master's planned plot rather than improvise an alternative story.
To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
Where this word comes from
From rail + road.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.