Definitions for railroad

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railroad rail·road

Spelling: [reyl-rohd]

IPA: /ˈreɪlˌroʊd/

Railroad is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in railroad (aadilorr).

Definitions for railroad

noun

1. a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
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)

1. to transport by means of a railroad.
2. to supply with railroads.
3. Informal. to push (a law or bill) hastily through a legislature so that there is not time enough for objections to be considered.
4. Informal. to convict (a person) in a hasty manner by means of false charges or insufficient evidence:

verb (used without object)

1. to work on a railroad.

Origin of railroad

1750-60; 1875-85 for def 9; rail¹ + road

Examples for railroad

Here is a railroad Accident, such as you have often wished to see.

I feared rough usage at the railroad, and rougher associations.

It was from a former railroad Commission employee who had gone to work for an oil and gas developer.

"We'd better go to the railroad depot, Mr. Dunham," he said.

He said he prefers to forget about his 18-month stint with the railroad Commission.

I was given a letter to Leadbitter, and immediately started on foot for the railroad.

A railroad Commission employee drove him 80 miles to his home in Freer.

My reasons for not wanting to go to the railroad to work were good.

Even if the real Henry never existed, thousands of black workers built the railroad tracks crisscrossing Ohio.

Kocurek and Wright, who worked in different railroad Commission districts, were fired within months of each other in 2013.