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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hardship
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
impose a burden/hardship etc (on sb/sth)
▪ Military spending imposes a huge strain on the economy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
considerable
▪ Aside from the psychological strain of settling in, some had to face considerable physical hardship.
▪ Sargant, J. granted the injunction, even though in doing so it would involve considerable hardship on the part of the Council.
▪ In the event of a serious loss considerable hardship can be caused by under insurance.
▪ Students suffer considerable hardship as a result.
▪ Consequently, he experienced considerable financial hardship which was exacerbated towards the end of his life by illness.
economic
▪ Mosfilm remains weakened by economic hardship, but employees were confident the worst was over.
▪ The couple has not repaid a $ 27, 000 grant, citing economic hardship.
▪ Manypeople have also suffered massive economic hardship in the monetary crisis.
▪ In the face of economic hardship, union women have gone beyond the limited reformism of their labor federations.
▪ Children are also sensitive to stress caused by anxiety, uncertainty and economic hardship.
▪ Refugee situation Political uncertainty and economic hardships led to a continued outflow of refugees, particularly from the minorities.
▪ The economic hardship facing farmers worsened in the years after 1914.
extreme
▪ Since the beginning of all storytelling, true lovers are shown as willing to die or face extreme hardship to save each other.
▪ Plunging prices have caused extreme hardship for farmers and workers throughout the Third World.
financial
▪ As families face greater financial hardship, the health threats that poverty represents become starker.
▪ Owners, it said, could apply for extensions if they faced unreasonable financial hardship.
▪ Because this would cause Mr Goodman financial hardship, a High Court judge said that it was wrong to grant a stay.
▪ Supporters claim the policy lies at the heart of their efforts to impose financial hardships on the Castro regime.
▪ So the financial hardships imposed by temporary unemployment or strikes fell.
▪ Apart from the possible financial hardship of retirement many find it hard to adjust to having little to do.
▪ A lax attitude to accident prevention can not be justified by the perennial excuses of financial hardships and pressure from high work-loads.
▪ Some are rushed in as emergency cases leaving bills unpaid, rent in arrears and families in financial hardship.
great
▪ This policy caused great hardship in villages where it was not possible to grow enough rice for the needs of the residents.
▪ In the old days they could stand great hardship and travel long distance without water.
▪ As families face greater financial hardship, the health threats that poverty represents become starker.
▪ The winter just ending had been exceptionally severe, causing great hardship to the poorer people.
▪ Today's elderly experienced great hardship and deprivation during their formative years.
▪ Yet constant raids were causing great losses and hardship.
▪ You can't book and might be forced to hang out a while in the noisy Champagne Bar-no great hardship.
▪ The result of this anomalous position has been that the majority of the disabled have had to suffer great financial hardship.
physical
▪ Aside from the psychological strain of settling in, some had to face considerable physical hardship.
▪ Beyond the physical hardships of poverty, he worries about the identity crisis that now afflicts the masses of rural immigrants.
▪ There was no history of violence or physical hardship in my upbringing at all.
▪ Workers have attributed skin rashes, dizziness, muscle cramps and miscarriages to the chemicals and physical hardship they endure.
▪ But the Tallentires were farmers and used to the physical hardships that go hand-in-hand with life on the land.
▪ She endured, and even enjoyed, considerable physical hardship on occasion.
▪ As her subjects prepared for action, she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed, notably the intense cold.
▪ As a result they suffer from poverty, physical hardship, neglect, sickness and disability, loneliness, humiliation and fear.
real
▪ This was of course in the days prior to National Health Insurance when prolonged illness meant real hardship.
severe
▪ In the years after 1930 the world depression caused severe hardship.
▪ They say it's failing millions of people living in severe hardship.
▪ They accept that, in principle, it is possible for private and public companies to suffer severe financial hardship.
▪ But recurrent harvest failures, the most notorious of which led to devastating famine in 1891, imposed severe hardship on many.
suffering
▪ What's the point in saving everything for a comfortable old age if you're suffering hardship now?
undue
▪ Criteria for eligibility in criminal cases remains unchanged and will continue to be based on the test of undue hardship.
▪ Knight said such a situation would create an undue hardship for businesses that would have to pay the cost of health benefits.
▪ In considering what would amount to undue hardship, the nature and cost of the accommodation should be looked at.
▪ A slave might not be ill-treated or subjected to undue hardship.
▪ The burden of proof should be upon the employer to demonstrate undue hardship.
■ NOUN
case
▪ Suddenly, I needed witnesses, including hardship cases, those who had suffered.
▪ Martic must consider such hardship cases.
■ VERB
cause
▪ On Jan. 14 Olszewski had agreed to look into budget proposals from the Solidarity trade union which would cause less hardship.
▪ First, there was the risk of physical shortage, causing dislocation and possible hardship.
▪ The winter just ending had been exceptionally severe, causing great hardship to the poorer people.
▪ Because this would cause Mr Goodman financial hardship, a High Court judge said that it was wrong to grant a stay.
▪ Yet constant raids were causing great losses and hardship.
▪ Although a short period of unemployment may be unwelcome and will certainly cause hardship, it is not necessarily disastrous.
▪ Plunging prices have caused extreme hardship for farmers and workers throughout the Third World.
endure
▪ We have endured hardship in order to provide continuous feedback.
▪ Born in about 570, Muhammad endured many hardships in the first forty years of his life.
▪ Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.
▪ Wilson speeches often praise the gumption of illegal immigrants who take risks and endure hardships to better themselves and their families.
▪ Nineteenth-century irrigation pioneers were better suited to endure hardships than settlers who struggled to survive on Federal Reclamation projects after 1902.
▪ His own soldiers respected him because he was always prepared to endure hardships.
▪ She has had to endure hardships and humiliations.
experience
▪ Consequently, he experienced considerable financial hardship which was exacerbated towards the end of his life by illness.
face
▪ Aside from the psychological strain of settling in, some had to face considerable physical hardship.
▪ Owners, it said, could apply for extensions if they faced unreasonable financial hardship.
▪ As families face greater financial hardship, the health threats that poverty represents become starker.
▪ Since the beginning of all storytelling, true lovers are shown as willing to die or face extreme hardship to save each other.
▪ The decision has left some of them facing financial hardship.
▪ A Benevolent Fund has been established and been able to help an increasing number of members facing hardship.
impose
▪ But recurrent harvest failures, the most notorious of which led to devastating famine in 1891, imposed severe hardship on many.
▪ Supporters claim the policy lies at the heart of their efforts to impose financial hardships on the Castro regime.
suffer
▪ Most travellers suffered appalling hardship and danger, none more so than the great Victorian explorers.
▪ He was a man who suffered hardship gladly, a hunter and a soldier.
▪ Manypeople have also suffered massive economic hardship in the monetary crisis.
▪ Excessive reliance on corporate entities managing only the costs creates suffering and hardship for patients and their families.
▪ Students suffer considerable hardship as a result.
▪ Students are undoubtedly a section of the population who have suffered substantial hardship as a result of Government-inspired measures.
▪ They accept that, in principle, it is possible for private and public companies to suffer severe financial hardship.
▪ The result of this anomalous position has been that the majority of the disabled have had to suffer great financial hardship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ During the war we faced many hardships.
▪ economic hardships
▪ Many students suffer financial hardship.
▪ Rising food prices caused great hardship for most of the population.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But hardships are part of war, and war is an aggregation of hardships.
▪ For his family it was a life of hardship and sacrifice.
▪ Most travellers suffered appalling hardship and danger, none more so than the great Victorian explorers.
▪ Serving a company in a foreign land, for example, is no longer either a privilege or a hardship.
▪ The hardship and neglect suffered by the sick was confirmed by a report published by the Lancet in 1866.
▪ The idea was to talk to survivors of life's hardships, from concentration camp victims to cancer sufferers.
▪ They lead medieval-style lives of appalling hardship.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hardship

Hardship \Hard"ship\ (h[aum]rd"sh[i^]p), n. That which is hard to bear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
--Swift.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hardship

c.1200, "quality of being hard," from hard + -ship. Meaning "disadvantage, suffering, privation" is c.1400.

Wiktionary
hardship

n. (countable or uncountable) difficulty or trouble; hard times.

WordNet
hardship
  1. n. a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: adversity, hard knocks]

  2. something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigour, severity, rigorousness]

  3. something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"

Wikipedia
Hardship

, meaning difficulty or trouble, may refer to the following:

  • hardship clause in contract law
  • undue hardship in employment law and other areas
  • extreme hardship in immigration law
  • hardship post in a foreign service

Usage examples of "hardship".

If successfully brought to safe harbor in Matagorda Bay, the Alamo would go far toward relieving the mounting hardships of the republic.

Her published dissertation on the family Bromeliaceae was backed up by years of fieldwork and countless hard-won miles trekking through the tropical forests of South America, and like all the naturalists who had gone before her, every mile had yielded a story of hardship and close calls.

The commercialization of agriculture worked manifold hardship to the peasant.

Sharon sat in the front beside Lena and I was in the back, which was no hardship to me, as Lena drives like a madbrain.

Its larger significance, its greater meaning, Eccles takes to be this: suffering, deprivation, barrenness, hardship, lack are all an indispensable part of the education, the initiation, as it were, of any of those who would follow Jesus Christ.

These men were all trained and seasoned veterans of both the Union and Confederate armies--soldiers who were inured to the hardships and rigors of many campaigns and fierce battles, and thousands of them readily enrolled themselves under the Fenian banners in anticipation of a war being inaugurated against the British nation, with the invasion of Canada as the first step.

Jesse thought of their hardships, feeling guilt because finally his teams were hauling in huge melange harvests, yet he had to pretend to be poor.

The hardships of life bent the people as the wind bent the trees, a wind that rarely ceased from wailing about the rocky tops of the mountains beneath which the folk of Sarmennyn lived in low huts made of stone and thatched with driftwood, seaweed, straw and turf.

Dad had actually put in for this latest transfer, though, and it was no hardship saying good-bye to the flat, featureless landscape and insultingly cold winters of the Canadian prairie.

The hardships of wealth are not incompensated by some benefits, but these benefits, false and hollow as they are, cannot be obtained by marriage.

He lived in and near Moscow, experiencing, like almost all Russian intellectuals, terrible hardships and privation, cold and hunger.

Well, now, Medicaid can pick up where Medicare leaves off, but you have to meet certain requirements that have a lot to do with hardship and giving out of money, but which Mr.

We can proactively use the tools of Kabbalah that God has given us, or we can achieve transformation in reaction to hardship, pain, confusion, and suffering.

With modest beginnings just across the Puyallup River from my own birthplace, and passionate about outdoor life, he judged people by their creativity, and by whether they met hardship with humor or with bile.

Only let us get back once, and there would be no more grumbling at rations or guard duty--we would willingly endure all the hardships and privations that soldier flesh is heir to.