Today’s “Word of the Day” is “railroad“ and it is a verb meaning “force someone into doing something or pressurize something to happen hurriedly & wrongfully; coerce, force, compel, pressure, pressurize”.
Example Sentence: India is not the only country to have attempted to seize this moment to deregulate agricultural markets…… Instead of the current (COVID-19) crisis sending governments back to the drawing board, South Asia’s authoritarian regimes, complicit (involved wrongly) with corporate interests, are railroading in anti-farmer agricultural policies.
This word is present in The Hindu article Convergence of agrarian discontent in South Asia and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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