▪ I. railroad rail‧road 1 [ˈreɪlrəʊd ǁ -roʊd] noun [countable]
1. TRANSPORT a railway:
• a railroad company
2. the railroad all the work, equipment etc connected with a train system:
• He had taken a job as a ticket agent on the railroad.
[m0] ▪ II. railroad railroad 2 verb [transitive]
to force or persuade someone to do something without giving them enough time to think about it:
railroad somebody into doing something
• The workers were railroaded into signing the agreement.
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railroad UK US /ˈreɪlrəʊd/ noun US TRANSPORT
► [C or U] a system of tracks that trains travel along: »
A potential client turned down the site because it isn't near a railroad.
a railroad car/track/bridge, etc. »Downtown is bordered at one end by railroad tracks, the other end by a bayou.
»a railroad depot/station
► [C] the companies, work, and people involved in transporting people and goods by train: »
We understand the railroads need to make a profit.
»After dropping out of school, he worked on the railroad.
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railroad UK US /ˈreɪlrəʊd/ verb [T]
► to force somebody to do or accept something without allowing them to refuse: railroad sb into doing sth »
We felt we were being railroaded into accepting a deal.
railroad sb into sth »We could be railroaded into a merger.
»Unfortunately, this scheme is being railroaded through Westminster under the pretext of immigration control.
Financial and business terms. 2012.