Synonyms for railroad
ˈreɪlˌroʊdrail·road

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1. railroadnoun

   Synonyms:
   railway

2. railroadnoun

   To transport via railroad.

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

   Synonyms:
   railway

3. railroadnoun

   To operate a railroad.

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

   Synonyms:
   railway

4. railroadnoun

   To work for a railroad.

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

   Synonyms:
   railway

5. railroadnoun

   To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.

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

   Synonyms:
   railway

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1. railway, railroad, railroad line, railway line, railway systemnoun

   line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight

   Synonyms:
   railway line, railway, line, railroad track, railway system, railroad line, rail line

2. railroad track, railroad, railwayverb

   a line of track providing a runway for wheels

   "he walked along the railroad track"

   Synonyms:
   railway, railroad line, railway system, railway line, railroad track

3. dragoon, sandbag, railroadverb

   compel by coercion, threats, or crude means

   "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone"

   Synonyms:
   stun, dragoon, sandbag

4. railroadverb

   supply with railroad lines

   "railroad the West"

   Synonyms:
   dragoon, sandbag

5. railroadverb

   transport by railroad

   Synonyms:
   dragoon, sandbag

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1. • Coerce
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1. railroadnoun

   Synonyms:
   railway

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1. railroadnoun

   Synonyms:
   railway

2. railroadverb

   Synonyms:
   hurry, rush

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1. List of paraphrases for "railroad":

   railway, rail, railways, korail, iron

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1. Sarah Feinberg:

   Starting on Jan. 1, FRA will impose penalties on railroads that have not fully implemented PTC, the total amount of penalty each railroad faces depends upon the total amount of implementation progress the railroad has made.

2. Robert Mann:

   Aviation is an incredible enabler of economic growth, both domestically and internationally, without it, you take it back to an almost agrarian economy, trying to operate with a railroad network.

3. Amy Klobuchar:

   Someone suggested maybe I should tie Amy Klobuchar to a railroad track and then record this video and say' I won't move until I get all your donations,' in to a million dollars, but I'm not going to do that because I give it to you straight.

4. Joe Bonsall:

   When a fair cancels the Confederate Railroad band because of their name its giving in to fascism, plain and simple and our freedom disappears piece by piece. Sick of it. i must say that canceling @ConfederateRR JUST because their name is CONFEDERATE RAILROAD is a crock of crap.

5. Clark Ballew:

   Because of the 60 vote threshold in the Senate, we also know who likely cast a token vote in our favor yesterday because they knew they were insolated from its passage. There was buffer room there for certain politicians who have never supportedour cause before to get a ‘freebie’ there, but railroaders are not dumb. We see that kind of deception everyday from our bosses on the railroad; we don't fall for that.