Word: railroads
A permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on. Example: Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land - and/or water roads
The transportation system comprising such roads 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 roads and usually associated assets Example: 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. Example: The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.
To transport via railroad.
To operate a railroad. Example: The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly
To work for a railroad.
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. Example: 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. Example: They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.
To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement. Example: He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.
To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.
(upholstery) To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
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