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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hard-fought
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
battle
▪ He beat to take the coveted first prize in a hard-fought battle at the Sneyd Arms, Sneyd Green.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A draw was a fair result to a hard-fought, sporting contest.
▪ And even that was a hard-fought victory.
▪ But, from a first fierce onslaught, ambush almost, the night wore on more hard-fought games.
▪ It had been a hard-fought victory, and Commanche Run did not race again that season.
▪ The results are a blow for women who thought their long and hard-fought campaign would guarantee success.
▪ The same team that allowed blowouts to deteriorate into hard-fought victories.
▪ Their latest victory, at the weekend, was a hard-fought away win against Plymouth, 10-12.
▪ This is going to be a close race, a hard-fought race.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hard-fought

hard-fought \hard"-fought`\ (-f[add]t`), a. Vigorously contested by both opponents; -- of contests; as, a hard-fought battle; a hard-fought primary election.

WordNet
hard-fought

adj. requiring great effort; "a hard-fought primary"

Usage examples of "hard-fought".

Since we wanted to avoid people as much as possible, we opted for the cardroom, where the two of us played a hard-fought game of Scrabble.

From this state of thralldom the heroes of the dawn had risen to break their shackles and to lead their people to many hard-fought victories.

He had met them on certain croplands north of Lymeport, and the hard-fought encounter had thus become known as the Battle of Bloody Rye.

Coyle went down in a hard-fought loss to Port Wash's Shelby van der Merwe of Hempstead, Long Island 6-3, 5-7, 7-5, A-4 Trevor "The Axhandle" Axford crushed P.

The neo-Soviet empire had appeared to collapse in the wake of the brief, hard-fought naval campaign off Norway nine months earlier.

Meanwhile, she could relax in the comfort of the inn, savoring the knowledge that her husband John had come through the hard-fought naval campaign in the Baltic.