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RAILROADER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does railroader mean? 

RAILROADER (noun)
  The noun RAILROADER has 1 sense:

1. an employee of a railroadplay

  Familiarity information: RAILROADER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RAILROADER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An employee of a railroad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

railroad man; railroader; railway man; railwayman; trainman

Hypernyms ("railroader" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "railroader"):

brakeman (a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes)

signalman (a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard)

yardman (worker in a railway yard)

train dispatcher; trainmaster; yardmaster (a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard)


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