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noun
1.
2.
an entire system of such roads together with its rolling stock, buildings, etc.; the entire railway plant, including fixed and movable property.
3.
the company of persons owning or operating such a plant.
4.
Bowling. a split.
5.
railroads, stocks or bonds of railroad companies.
verb (used with object)
6.
to transport by means of a railroad.
7.
to supply with railroads.
8.
Informal. to push (a law or bill) hastily through a legislature so that there is not time enough for objections to be considered.
9.
Informal. to convict (a person) in a hasty manner by means of false charges or insufficient evidence: The prisoner insisted he had been railroaded.
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verb (used without object)
10.
to work on a railroad.
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railroad (ˈreɪlˌrəʊd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the usual US word for railway |
| —vb | |
| 2. | informal (tr) to force (a person) into (an action) with haste or by unfair means |
| railway or (US) railroad (ˈreɪlˌweɪ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a permanent track composed of a line of parallel metal rails fixed to sleepers, for transport of passengers and goods in trains |
| 2. | any track on which the wheels of a vehicle may run: a cable railway |
| 3. | the entire equipment, rolling stock, buildings, property, and system of tracks used in such a transport system |
| 4. | the organization responsible for operating a railway network |
| 5. | (modifier) of, relating to, or used on a railway or railways: a railway engine; a railway strike |
| railroad or (US) railroad | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
railroad
1757, from rail (n.1) + road. Originally "road laid with rails for heavy wagons (in mining)." The system itself seems to have been in use by late 17c. Application to passenger and freight trains dates from 1825, though tending to be replaced in this
sense in England by railway (1812). The verb meaning "to convict quickly and perhaps unjustly" is from 1884.
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