What is the difference between railroad and railway?
railroad | railway | Synonyms |
A permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
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
(figuratively) A procedure conducted or bullied in haste without due consideration.
To transport via railroad.
To operate a railroad.
To work for a railroad.
To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
(role-playing games) To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.
A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
A transport system using these rails used to move passengers or goods.
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Railway is a synonym of railroad.
As nouns the difference between railroad and railway
is that railroad is a permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on while railway is a track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.As a verb railroad
is to transport via railroad.railroad
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land - and/or water roads
- ''Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each-other
- The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.
Synonyms
* railway (UK)Derived terms
* railroad flat * railroad trackVerb
(en verb)- ''The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly
- The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections.
- They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.
- He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.
Derived terms
* railroaderrailway
English
(wikipedia railway)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}