Usually means: Transportation networks using trains, tracks.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. railroads: Merriam-Webster
  2. railroads: Collins English Dictionary
  3. railroads: Vocabulary.com
  4. Railroad's, Railroads, railroad's, railroads: Wordnik
  5. railroads: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. railroads: Wiktionary
  7. railroads: Dictionary.com
  8. railroads: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Railroads: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Railroads: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. railroads: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. railroads: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. railroads: Idioms

(Note: See railroad as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Railroad)

noun:  (chiefly US, Philippines) A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
noun:  (chiefly US) The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
noun:  (chiefly US) A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
noun:  (figuratively) A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
verb:  (transitive) To transport via railroad.
verb:  (intransitive) To operate a railroad.
verb:  (intransitive) To work for a railroad.
verb:  (intransitive) To travel by railroad.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
verb:  (transitive) To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
verb:  (transitive) To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
verb:  (transitive) To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
verb:  (roleplaying games) To force players to follow the dungeon master's planned plot rather than improvise an alternative story.
verb:  (upholstery) To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
noun:  A borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, so-named for the Northern Central Railway.
noun:  A township in Starke County, Indiana, United States.
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