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Meaning railroad meaning

What does railroad mean?
Definitions in simple English

railroad Noun

— A track or road that a train runs on. — A system of trains and tracks.

railroad Verb

— If you railroad a person you get rid of that person quickly. Usually, this mean you force them out or away. — If you railroad a person, you send that person to jail or prison unfairly.

railroad

— noun (= railway) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight — verb transport by railroad — verb supply with railroad lines railroad the West — noun (= railroad track) a line of track providing a runway for wheels he walked along the railroad track — verb (= sandbag) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone

Synonyms railroad synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as railroad?

railroad English » English

railway railway line rail train railroad track sandbag rush railway system railroad line hustle hasten dragoon tread road train track railway track precipitate monorail hurry hie expedite dispatch despatch compel

Topics railroad topics

What do people use railroad to talk about?
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by land

Railroad
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building

Conjugation railroad conjugation

How do you conjugate railroad?

railroad · verb

Examples railroad examples

How do I use railroad in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Where is the railroad station?
It's the fastest railroad in the world.
The railroad is now in the process of construction.
The railroad divides into two after the bridge.
The railroad is parallel to the road.
He works on the railroad as a driver.
He was killed in a railroad accident.
Passengers must take the footbridge to cross the railroad tracks.
Is that the railroad station?
I cross the railroad tracks every morning.
In the United States, most goods still travel by railroad.
A railroad was constructed in this town.
The railroad system in Japan is said to be wonderful.
How many kilometers is it from here to the railroad station?
The cost of building the railroad was very high.

Movie subtitles

Your railroad friend could use a lesson in manners.
My brother. - Are you related. to the Mr. Wyatt who works for the railroad?
He's our uncle, but our dad works for the railroad, too.
He's making them eat there. We did fine before the railroad workers got here.
And now, with the new railroad contract, business is booming, my poor Lee is terribly overworked.
We just got another order from the railroad.
The railroad commissary.
Mr. Mayor. I realize that you're in the railroad's pocket, and I know that Ray Wyatt has it in for Mrs. Stanton.
You knew the railroad commissary would hurt my business.
The railroad doesn't need to ask permission to feed its employees.
We both know the railroad owns this territory.
No, no, I mean, in recognition of my many years of service with the railroad, you have presented me with these ties.
The name on the railroad station's been shot off.
Railroad station?
This morning, we met the royal committee for the development of Algeria. There'll be a railroad from Algiers to Blida.
They're about to start building the Algiers-Blida railroad.
They're sabotaging his railroad.
Next week, we'll be laying down the last railroad track. We're also inaugurating the new Blida station.
Do you know what Arabs say about your railroad?
Besides, many lovers come to railroad stations to kiss without attracting attention.
Railroad station? Ticket office, please.
No car, no telephone, hours to the nearest railroad and a train only every two days.
In the railroad station in Chicago.
Sit back and let them railroad you?
They're trying to railroad this man for money.
He called one of his friends at the railroad. I forget who.
He stole a railroad from the stockholders.
When they gonna ask you to build a railroad to California?
Cocoanut Manor, 42 hours from Times Square by railroad.
Railroad dicks.
Those are railroad dicks.
There's a bunch of railroad dicks coming out to meet us.
It's for a kid out near the railroad tracks. A train ran over his leg.
The man was a railroad employee, not an officer of the law.
Guilty or not guilty to trespass and atrocious assault. with a rock upon the person of the employee of the railroad.
But there's talk of a railroad.
But if the railroad came here.
We'll come back and lick Dawson and Frisbee and the whole Western Railroad crowd.
Dawson and the railroad gang got millions.

News and current affairs

Or, for a start, the existing railroad link between the two countries could be made operational.
When President Jacques Chirac's first government attempted such a reform in 1995, railroad workers, who can retire at age 50 or 55, spearheaded the resistance.
A railroad worker is standing next to a switch that can turn the boxcar onto a side track, killing one person, but allowing the five to survive.
We are not a ferry, a railroad, a telecommunications network, or an electricity grid with only one line serving you and no competitors allowed.
Subsequent investigation revealed that the structure, the longest of its kind, simply pushed the limits of railroad-bridge engineering too far.
Before there was widespread automobile ownership, land prices depended on location, and proximity to the central city or to the local railroad station carried a premium.
What had been an offshore European island with bad weather emerged as the world's major economy, whose products, from textiles to railroad equipment, came to dominate world markets.
Wars of conquest, territorial acquisition, continental surveying, and canal and then railroad subsidies were good for voters, immigrants, and pretty much everyone else except the outnumbered and outgunned Native Americans who got in the way.
Public investment in infrastructure (such as a massive expansion of the European railroad network), as well as climate protection and environmental technology, will be needed.
In one dilemma, you are standing by a railroad track when you notice that a trolley, with no one aboard, is heading for a group of five people.
The contract also involves the construction of a power plant and a railroad connecting the mines to China through Pakistan.
In the nineteenth century, an orgy of railroad building created duplicating lines, before severe cyclical downturns purged many of the companies, leaving a leaner and cheaper network.

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