brake failure

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   brakes fail to stop a vehicle

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Questions about brake failure

What does brake failure mean?

brake failure means "brakes fail to stop a vehicle".

Is brake failure a common word?

brake failure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.