Word Meanings - RAILROADING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad.

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• OPERATIC; OPERATICAL
  Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• MANAGEABLE
  Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse. Syn. -- Governable; tractable; controllable; docile. -- Man"age*a*ble*ness, n. -- Man"age*a*bly, adv.
• MANAGERY
  1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. 2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.
• OPERATION
  Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• RAILROAD; RAILWAY
  1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. Note: The modern railroad is a development
• MANAGELESS
  Unmanageable.
• CONSTRUCTION
  The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke. 4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a
• OPERATIVE
  Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery. (more info) 1. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive. It holds in all
• CONSTRUCTIONIST
  One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.
• OPERATOR
  One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments. 3. A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
• MANAGERIAL
  Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. "Managerial responsibility." C. Bronté.
• OPERATORY
  A laboratory.
• MANAGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.
• CONSTRUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
• OPERATE
  To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc. 5. To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative
• RAILROADING
  The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad.
• MANAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. "The management of
• MANAGERSHIP
  The office or position of a manager.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• PROPERATE
  To hasten, or press forward.
• COOPERATOR
  One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. "Coöperators with the truth." Boyle.
• MISCONSTRUCTION
  Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
• MISMANAGEMENT
  Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
• LOADMANAGE; LODEMANAGE
  Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. Chaucer.
• UNOPERATIVE
  Producing no effect; inoperative. South.