hardship
/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/ noun B1- Difficulty or trouble; hard times. · He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
- 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.
Plural hardships
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My hardships were not so great as you imagined, though such trifling details must never interfere with the investigation of a case.
He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly.
Where in the tropics could an English army doctor have seen much hardship and got his arm wounded?
“I am very sensible, madam, of the hardship to my fair cousins, and could say much on the subject, but that I am cautious of appearing forward and precipitate.
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