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A permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.

Example: Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land - and/or water roads

The transportation system comprising such roads and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.

A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such roads and usually associated assets

Example: Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each-other

A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.

Example: The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.

To transport via railroad.

To operate a railroad.

Example: The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly

To work for a railroad.

To travel by railroad.