yardmaster

Questions about yardmaster

What does yardmaster mean?

yardmaster means "a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard".

How many syllables are in yardmaster?

yardmaster has 3 syllables and divides as yard-ma-ster under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for yardmaster?

Close synonyms include trainmaster, train dispatcher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yardmaster a common word?

yardmaster is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.