Word Finder - railroad

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A permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.

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Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land - and/or water roads

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The transportation system comprising such roads and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.

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A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such roads and usually associated assets

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Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each-other

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A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.

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The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.

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To transport via railroad.

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To operate a railroad.

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The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly

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To work for a railroad.

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To travel by railroad.

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To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.

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To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.

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The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections.

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To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.

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They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.

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To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.

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He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.

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To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.

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(upholstery) To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.