What does emergency brake mean?

emergency brake means "a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage".

What is another word for emergency brake?

Close synonyms include hand brake, emergency, parking brake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is emergency brake a common word?

emergency brake 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.

emergency brake — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage
Synonymshand brake emergency parking brake
Broaderbrake
Part ofmotor vehicle

Questions about emergency brake

What does emergency brake mean?: emergency brake means "a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage".

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