road-rail
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Accommodating both road and railway.
Example Sentences
- "[...] the main road movement is alongside the most heavily occupied sections of railway, so that road-rail competition is inescapable."
- "a combined road-rail bridge"
- "A proposal to construct it as a road/rail bridge was considered but ultimately rejected on the grounds of cost."
- "Intensive study is being devoted to finding a cheaper and quicker means of road-rail transfer and to improving the payload/tare weight of containers, and there will be more containers of special types."
- ""We have some areas on the Mallaig line where you have no road access at all," Phil explains. "This is where the road-rail vehicles come into their own.""