hard shoulder

English

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

hard shoulder (plural hard shoulders)

A verge to the side of a highway, which should be used only in case of an emergency (especially on a motorway)
- 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 38:
  As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.

Synonyms

breakdown lane

Translations

verge to the side of a highway

Catalan: vorera d'emergència f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 硬路肩 (yìnglùjiān)
Dutch: vluchtstrook (nl) f, pechstrook (nl) f
Finnish: päällystetty piennar, piennar (fi)
French: bande d’arrêt d’urgence (fr) f, (Quebec) accotement stabilisé m
German: Standstreifen (de) m, Pannenstreifen (de) m (Austria, Switzerland), Seitenstreifen (de) m (colloquial)
Greek: ΛΕΑ (el) f (LEA)
Hungarian: leállósáv (hu)
Italian: corsia di emergenza f
Macedonian: принудна лента f (prinudna lenta)
Polish: pas awaryjny m
Romanian: bandă de urgență
Spanish: acotamiento (es) m (Mexico), arcén (es) m, banquina (es) f (Rioplatense), berma (es) f (Colombia, Chile), espaldón m (Costa Rica), hombrillo (es) m, hombro (es) m, paseo (es) m (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico), camellón (es) m
Ukrainian: смуга руху для аварійної зупинки f (smuha ruxu dlja avarijnoji zupynky), аварійна смуга f (avarijna smuha)

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Afrikaans: noodbaan
Basque: bazterbide
Bulgarian: банке́т (bg) m (bankét)
Catalan: voral m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 路肩 (zh) (lùjiān)
Czech: krajnice f
Danish: rabat (da) c
Dutch: berm (nl) m, vluchtstrook (nl) f, pechstrook (nl) f (Belgium)
Faroese: vegøksl f
Finnish: piennar (fi), tienreuna
French: accotement (fr) m, bas-côté (fr) m
Galician: beiravía f
German: Seitenstreifen (de) m
Hebrew: שוליים (he) m pl (shuláyim), שול (he) m (shól)
Hungarian: útpadka (hu)
Icelandic: vegöxl f, öxl (is) f
Indonesian: bahu jalan
Italian: banchina (it) f
Malay: bahu (ms), bahu jalan (ms)
Polish: pobocze (pl) n
Portuguese: acostamento (pt) m (Brazil), berma (pt) f (Portugal)
Russian: обо́чина (ru) f (obóčina)
Slovak: krajnica f
Swedish: vägren (sv) c
Ukrainian: узбі́ччя n (uzbíččja)
Venetan: banchina f
Welsh: llain f