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hardship

[hahrd-ship]

noun

  1. a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression.

    a life of hardship.

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  2. an instance or cause of this; something hard to bear, as a deprivation, lack of comfort, or constant toil or danger.

    They faced bravely the many hardships of frontier life.



hardship

/ ˈɑːʃɪ /

noun

  1. conditions of life difficult to endure

  2. something that causes suffering or privation

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hardship1

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English; hard + -ship
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Synonym Study

Hardship, privation, austerity refer to a condition hard to endure. Hardship applies to a circumstance in which excessive and painful effort of some kind is required, as enduring acute discomfort from cold, or battling over rough terrain. Privation has particular reference to lack of food, clothing, and other necessities or comforts. Austerity not only includes the ideas of privation and hardship but also implies deliberate control of emotional reactions to these.
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Peddy, signed to a hardship contract, joined the team just before Saturday’s loss to the Minnesota Lynx.

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In times of economic vendor hardship such as rainy seasons or emergencies like January’s fires, the nonprofit launched a “vendor buy-out” initiative to help sustain them.

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Is “Homework” about a child who took a remarkably frictionless path, aided by a nation that had invested in civic institutions, from monetary hardship to the ivory tower?

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Potential funding cuts to needed federal services, alongside the stress of job loss and parenting a child with a disability, create layers of hardship that many of these parents are struggling to navigate, Marshall added.

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Thorne told the BBC's Access All podcast that the plans were going to cause "severe hardship" for thousands of disabled people and "enough is enough".

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