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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.