hardship

/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/

noun 2verb 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

appalling, considerable, dreadful, extreme, genuine, great, immense, real, severe | widespread | undue, unnecessary | economic, financial, material, personal, physical

VERB + HARDSHIP

cause

bear, endure, experience, face, suffer, survive

Many refugees have endured unimaginable hardship while fleeing their war-torn homeland.

HARDSHIP + NOUN

payment

The government provided hardship payments to families struggling with unexpected medical bills.

PREP

in ~

Many families fell in hardship after losing their jobs during the economic crisis.

without ~

She managed to move to a new city without serious hardship despite losing her job.

~ among

Many families faced significant hardship among their communities during the economic recession.

~ to

Living without a car is no great hardship to people in cities with good public transport.

PHRASES

times of hardship

During times of hardship, many families had to rely on help from their neighbors.

Definitions

noun

Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

If train services of this kind were to be cut off, without any provision of alternative services, there would, of course, be hardship in some cases.

A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.

When you visit the museum, we invite you to make a donation of $10 if this will not be a hardship.

verb

To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.

[…] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]

Although we lost the election by the narrowest of margins, the people of Oregon heard a great deal about education, and particularly about how "look-say" reading instruction was hardshipping Oregon school children.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — something hard to endure

asperity
grimness
rigor
rigour
severity
severeness
rigorousness
rigourousness

noun — a state of misfortune or affliction

adversity

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

Wiktionary

If train services of this kind were to be cut off, without any provision of alternative services, there would, of course, be hardship in some cases.

Wiktionary

The TUCC's role was to assess what (if any) hardship a BR closure proposal would cause, and to make recommendations to ministers who would have the final say.

Wiktionary

[…] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]

Wiktionary

Kaishuu made nothing of hardship.

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