Hard-working
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Hard-working is an adjective meaning Alternative form of hardworking.
Meaning
Alternative form of hardworking.
Example Sentences
Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed.
‘I could say a million things about you, but the one thing I could never say is that you’re lazy. You’re one of the hardest-working men I’ve ever known.’
One other thing: throughout all this, the railway has remained home for thousands of dedicated, hard-working people. They're out there in all conditions ensuring that 1.7 billion passenger journeys can be made per year.
Observation of my elders and betters in other advertising agencies leads me to believe that many of them are more objective, better organized, more vigorous, and harder-working than their opposite numbers in legal practice, teaching, banking, and journalism.
Word Forms
- harder-working
- hardest-working
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hard, tedious, robust, time-consuming, sturdy, cumbersome.
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