1 to force something to happen or force someone to do something, especially quickly or unfairly:
2 a system of transportation using special vehicles whose wheels turn on metal bars fixed to the ground, or a particular company using such a system:
3 to force something to happen or force someone to do something, esp. quickly and unfairly:
5 the companies, work, and people involved in transporting people and goods by train:
We understand the railroads need to make a profit.
6 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.
We see that freight railroads make good profits while rendering excellent service.
The railroads have lost a lot of business to trucking companies.
The book discusses the decline of the railroads in the United States.
But by the opening decade of the twentieth century the railroads had become victims of their own success.
Part of the increase in the number of weeks worked and wages earned between 1834 and 1837 was due to new work on the railroad.
Between 1862 and 1872, the federal government spent millions of dollars and allotted over 100 million acres of land to railroad corporations.
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