Hardship

/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/ · noun

Meaning

Difficulty or trouble; hard times..

Definitions by Sense

1. Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
2. A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.
3. (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.

Example Sentences

He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

If train services of this kind were to be cut off, without any provision of alternative services, there would, of course, be hardship in some cases.

The TUCC's role was to assess what (if any) hardship a BR closure proposal would cause, and to make recommendations to ministers who would have the final say.

When you visit the museum, we invite you to make a donation of $10 if this will not be a hardship.

[…] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]

Although we lost the election by the narrowest of margins, the people of Oregon heard a great deal about education, and particularly about how "look-say" reading instruction was hardshipping Oregon school children.

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• hardships
• hardshipping
• hardshipped

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