railroading

Meaning of railroading

verb
  1. To transport via railroad.
  2. To operate a railroad.
    The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly
  3. To work for a railroad.
  4. To travel by railroad.
  5. To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
  6. To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
    The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections.
  7. To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
    They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.
  8. To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
    He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.
  9. To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.
  10. (upholstery) To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
noun
  1. The operation of a railroad.
  2. The class of people, equipment, terminology, and lore pertaining to railroads.
  3. A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.

Information about railroading

  • The plural form of railroading is: railroadings.
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Hyphenation of railroading

rail-road-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • railroading is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with railroading

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