hard shoulder

English

Noun

hard shoulder (plural hard shoulders)

1. A verge to the side of a highway, which should be used only in case of an emergency (especially on a motorway)

Translations

verge to the side of a highway

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 路肩 (cmn) (lùjiān)

• Finnish: piennar (fi)
• French: bande d'arrêt d'urgence (fr) f

• German: Standstreifen m
• Greek: ΛΕΑ (el) (LEA) f
• Portuguese: acostamento (pt) m, berma (pt) f
• Russian: обочина (ru) (obóčina) f

Synonyms

• breakdown lane

See also

• soft shoulder

External links

• Hard shoulder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia