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e-brake

e-brake is the abbreviation of emergency brake.

Meaning of emergency brake

Noun

emergency brake (plural emergency brakes)

  1. A brake which can be used by passengers in a vehicle to stop in event of an emergency.
    • At 0725, the driver operated the emergency brakes to no immediate effect. [...] As the train passed through Platform 11 at around 30mph, the train manager realised there was a problem and applied the emergency brake, bringing the train to a stand [...].2020 June 17, Andrew Roden, “Brake pipe issue prompted Caledonian Sleeper runaway”, in Rail, page 12
  2. (dated) A parking brake.

Forms of e-brake

plurale-brakes

Origin of e-brake

From e- + brake.

Questions about e-brake

What is e-brake the abbreviation of?
E-brake is the abbreviation of emergency brake.

Words near e-brake in the dictionary

  1. e-boutique
  2. e-boutiques
  3. e-boy
  4. e-boyfriend
  5. e-boys
  6. e-brake
  7. e-brakes
  8. e-briefing
  9. e-briefings
  10. e-brochure
  11. e-brochures

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Adapted from Wiktionary: e-brake (page history and authors); emergency brake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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