Definition of Mainlines

1. Verb. (third-person singular of mainline) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mainlines

1. mainline [v] - See also: mainline

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mainlines

mainframelike
mainframes
mainie
mainies
maining
mainland
mainland China
mainland Chinese
mainlander
mainlanders
mainlands
mainline
mainlined
mainliner
mainliners
mainlines (current term)
mainlining
mainly
mainmast
mainmasts
mainor
mainors
mainour
mainours
mainpernable
mainpernor
mainpernors
mainpin
mainpins
mainplane

Literary usage of Mainlines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Intermodal Freight Transportation: Combined Rail-Truck Service Offers Public (1993)
"... Has Been Uneven and Has Aggravated Some Highway Congestion Problems Figure 4.1: Railroad mainlines Showing Intermodal Volume in 1987 Oakland Los Angeles ..."

2. The OECD Report on Regulatory Reform by Joanna R. Shelton (1997)
"1t has more than 8 million telecommunication mainlines, which results in a market penetration of 52 mainlines per 100 inhabitants (the OECD-average is 47 ..."

3. Regulatory Reform in the United States by Scott H. Jacobs (1999)
"... with sectoral PPP1, mainlines + cellular subscribers and numbers of pay phone as output concepts and employment and capital 1as in TFP1 as inputs. ..."

4. Annual Report of the Trade and Commerce of Chicago by Chicago Board of Trade (1891)
"West of the Missouri Biver, tributary to Chicago. East of the Missouri Hiver . West of the Missouri Hiver . Recapitulation. Roads. mainlines. Branches. ..."

5. Quantifying the Benefits of Liberalising Trade in Services by (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, Oecd (2003)
"The impact on the measure of allocative efficiency, the number of mainlines, is less obvious. Increased internal efficiency owing to privatisation would ..."

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