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.