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Definition of Railroading
1. Noun. The activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads.
Generic synonyms: Engineering, Technology
Specialized synonyms: Maglev, Magnetic Levitation
Derivative terms: Railroad, Railroad
Definition of Railroading
1. n. The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad.
Definition of Railroading
1. Verb. (present participle of railroad) ¹
2. Noun. (rail transport US) The class of people, equipment, terminology, and lore pertaining to railroads. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Railroading
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Railroading
Literary usage of Railroading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Workers of the Nation: An Encyclopedia of the Occupations of the American by Gilson Willets (1903)
"It is plain, therefore, that railroading as an occupation affects the present
and future of more persons in the United States than any other avenue of ..."
2. The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edision by William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, Antonia Dickson (1894)
"This was a wild tangent, however, from the sane and legitimate line of electric
railroading, which found its basis at Menlo Park, and which was exploited ..."
3. Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Rectum, Anus, and Contiguous Textures by Samuel Goodwin Gant (1896)
"railroading AS AN ETIOLOGICAL FACTOR IN RECTAL DISEASES. WE wish now to invite
your attention to a very common cause of rectal disease. ..."
4. Diseases of the Rectum and Anus: Designed for Students and Practitioners of by Samuel Goodwin Gant (1902)
"In order to demonstrate that railroading predisposes conductors, engineers,
firemen, porters, brakemen, ..."
5. Diseases of the rectum and anus by Samuel Goodwin Gant (1906)
"So far as the author has been able to learn, railroading as an dialogic factor in
... In order to demonstrate that railroading predisposes conductors, ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In the earlier days of railroading, no brakes were installed on the locomotive ;
then straight air brakes were applied to the engine ; next straight air ..."
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