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hard-pressed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective hard-pressed has 1 sense
- hard-pressed(s = adj.all) distressed, hard put, in a bad way - facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"
CIDE DICTIONARY
hard-pressed, adj.
facing or experiencing trouble or difficulty; as, financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices; they were hard-pressed to find a substitute on short notice; -- see distressed{1}. [WordNet 1.5]
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