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1.NounA permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on."Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land or water roads."
2.NounThe transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
3.NounA single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets"Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each other."
4.NounA procedure conducted in haste without due consideration."The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed."
5.VerbTo transport via railroad.
6.VerbTo operate a railroad."The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly."
7.VerbTo work for a railroad.
8.VerbTo travel by railroad.
9.VerbTo engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
10.VerbTo manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution."The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections."
11.VerbTo convict of a crime by circumventing due process."They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges."
12.VerbTo procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement."He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview."
13.VerbTo force players to follow the dungeon master's planned plot rather than improvise an alternative story.
14.VerbTo run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.