hard shoulder

English

hard shoulder (on the left)

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)

Synonyms

• breakdown lane

Translations

verge to the side of a highway

• Catalan: voral m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 路肩 (zh) (lùjiān)

• Finnish: piennar (fi)
• French: bande d’arrêt d’urgence (fr) f
• German: Standstreifen (de) m
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• Greek: ΛΕΑ f (LEA)
• Italian: corsia di emergenza f
• Portuguese: acostamento (pt) m, berma (pt) f
• Russian: обо́чина (ru) f (obóčina)
• Spanish: arcén (es) m
• Swedish: vägren (sv)

See also

• soft shoulder

Further reading

• hard shoulder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia