Definition of "yardmaster" []

• A railroad employee in charge of a yard. (noun)

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• "Pearl's yardmaster told Nimitz it would take months to refit the carrier."
• "He believed that the yardmaster could fix the Yorktown in 72 hours, and he was right."
• "In an exceptional cast, Rosario Dawson is Connie, a yardmaster who knows her stuff and has the courage to insist on it; Kevin Corrigan is an intelligent and intuitive federal safety inspector; Ethan Suplee is a dim-bulb threat to safety in the marshaling yard; Kevin Dunn is an invincibly dense manager, and Lew Temple is a welder who seizes the limelight."