railroad
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rail + road.
Compound parts: rail
road
Inflected forms:
form: railroads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: railroads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: railroading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: railroaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: railroaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
examples: Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land or water roads.
gloss: The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each other.
gloss: A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.
Gregory Scroggins, a PWA [person with AIDS] in Georgia who was found guilty of assault with intent to commit murder for biting a cop during arrest. It took only three days in October of 1989 to charge, try, convict and sentence Scroggins, who is now serving a 10-year sentence and has been denied bail (and medical treatment) pending appeal. […] Judy Siff of ACT/UP/Atlanta told GCN that Scroggins' case was a "railroad" of unbelievable proportions.
gloss: To transport via railroad.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To operate a railroad.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly.
gloss: To work for a railroad.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She used to railroad for the Southern Pacific.
gloss: To travel by railroad.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections.
Sebastian Riedel lodged a complaint with TPF board, which he says was railroaded by a board member—therefore, Riedel quit.
What appears suspect about the Beeching Report is how quickly it was railroaded through, with the answers manufactured before the questions were asked.
gloss: To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.
My witnesses were not questioned to my advantage. Physical evidence in my attorney's possession was not presented to the jury. A promised expert witness was not called nor even sought. I knew that I was being railroaded but I was helpless.
"I'm going to the^([sic]) Hague to see Mr Milosevic at his request," he told CBC radio before leaving Canada. "All of us feel he's being railroaded and used as a scapegoat for Nato's attack on Yugoslavia.
Stark reminder of how an innocent man can be railroaded into spending years in jail [title]
gloss: To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.
Also on Friday, The Daily News published a column by Richard Azzopardi, a senior adviser to the governor, who wrote that Mr. Cuomo had been “railroaded” by Ms. James, a Democrat who is considered a possible candidate for governor next year but who has not said she plans to run.
gloss: To force players to follow the dungeon master's planned plot rather than improvise an alternative story.
pos: verb
gloss: To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
pos: verb
examples: If you are upholstering a larger item, such as a sofa, it's a good idea to see if the fabric you are buying can be railroaded. Railroading refers to being able to run the fabric from left to right, rather than the conventional top to bottom. […][W]hen a pattern is railroaded you can turn it on its side and roll it out to the width of the sofa without join lines.
Synonyms: railway
Derived words: antirailroad
granger railroad
logging railroad
nonrailroad
prerailroad
prorailroad
railroad apartment
railroad car
Railroad City
railroad crossing
railroad diagram
railroad disease
railroad engineer
railroad flat
railroad gun
railroadiana
railroadish
railroad line
railroad sickness
railroad spike
railroad station
railroad stripe
railroad switch
railroad tie
railroad track
railroad tramp
railroad truck
railroad worm
RR
R.R.
underground railroad
way to run a railroad
railroader
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