railroad
/ˈɹeɪlɹoʊd/ sustantivo B1En español: ferrocarril, vía férrea, empresa ferroviaria
- 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.
- The transportation system comprising such tracks 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 tracks and usually associated assets · 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. · The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.
Plural railroads
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“The branch railroad will be built to Carmody by that time.”
An hour later Holmes, Lestrade and I stood upon the Underground railroad at the point where it emerges from the tunnel immediately before Aldgate Station.
Danglars was engaged at that moment, presiding over a railroad committee.
The railroads changed all that.
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