hard shoulder
noun [C usually singular] UK (US shoulder, Irish English hard margin)Definition
› a hard area at the side of a main road where a driver can stop if there is a serious problemMotorways
(Definition of hard shoulder noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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