(AmE) = RAILWAY
verb [VN]
1 ~ sb (into sth / into doing sth) to force sb to do sth before they have had enough time to decide whether or not they want to do it:
I will not be railroaded into signing something I don't agree with.
2 ~ sth (through / through sth) to make a group of people accept a decision, law, etc. quickly by putting pressure on them:
The bill was railroaded through the House.
3 (AmE) to decide that sb is guilty of a crime, without giving them a fair trial
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for railroad is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is railroad a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, railroad is tagged as noun.
Does railroad appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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