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twin-track

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twin-track (not comparable)

  1. (British) pursuing two objectives by employing two simultaneous processes
    • 2020 November 7, Timothy Garton Ash, “What will President Biden's United States look like to the rest of the world?”, in The Guardian[1]:
      In pursuing a twin-track strategy of competition and cooperation, the US has unique strengths.
  2. (rail transport) Synonym of double-track.
    • 2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Trans-Pennine... transformative”, in RAIL, number 970, page 41:
      Crossgates to Garforth (Project E3) is the subject of fresh development work, with the DfT interested in TRU Option G. This has the potential to deliver a very different railway to the twin-track one that's there today.