Railroad

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A 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. isim The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
3. isim A 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. isim A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.

   “The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.”

5. fiil To transport via railroad.
6. fiil To operate a railroad.

   “The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly.”

7. fiil To work for a railroad.

   “She used to railroad for the Southern Pacific.”

8. fiil To travel by railroad.
9. fiil To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
10. fiil To 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. fiil To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.

    “They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.”

12. fiil To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.

    “He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.”

13. fiil To force players to follow the dungeon master's planned plot rather than improvise an alternative story.
14. fiil To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
15. özel isim A borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, so-named for the Northern Central Railway.
16. özel isim A township in Starke County, Indiana, United States.