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RR

RR is the initialism of railroad.

RR is the initialism of road race.

RR is the abbreviation of rear.

RR is the initialism of right rear.

RR is the initialism of Rolls-Royce.

RR is the initialism of reverse racism.

Meaning of railroad

Noun

railroad (plural railroads)

  1. (Philippines, US) A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
    • Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land or water roads.
  2. (US) The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
  3. (US) A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
    • Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each other.
  4. (figuratively) A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
    • The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.

See all 16 meanings of railroad

Meaning of road race

Noun

road race (plural road races)

  1. A race run on roads rather than a track.

Verb

RR

  1. (dated) (from the status code used in the GDS) reconfirm / reconfirmed.

Synonyms of RR

Forms of RR

pluralRRs
alternative formR.R.

Questions about RR

What does RR mean?
RR means (from the status code used in the GDS) reconfirm / reconfirmed.
What is RR the initialism of?
RR is the initialism of railroad.
What part of speech is RR?
RR is a verb.

Words near RR in the dictionary

  1. rqns.
  2. RQOF
  3. RQOFs
  4. RQQ
  5. RQQs
  6. RR
  7. rrah
  8. RRAM
  9. rrat
  10. RRATs
  11. rraup

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: RR (page history and authors); railroad (page history and authors); road race (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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