| 单词 | yardmaster |
| 释义 | yardmaster (once / 214897 pages) n WORD FAMILY yardmaster USAGE EXAMPLESHis father was a yardmaster for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; his mother was a saleswoman and later a social worker. Washington Post(Aug 05, 2014) It is hard for a railroad man to realize that a couple of silver bars have changed a yardmaster into a captain. Broun, Heywood, The A.E.F.—With General Pershing an...(2012) "Tain't me, that's dead sure," retorted the engineer, with a careless shrug of his shoulders, "and we'll leave it to the yardmaster to find out." Chapman, Allen, Ralph of the Roundhouse(2012) n a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard Syn|Hyper train dispatcher, trainmaster dispatcher employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service railroad man, railroader, railway man, railwayman, trainmanan employee of a railroad |
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