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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“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.
“These are home questions--and perhaps I cannot say that I have experienced many hardships of that nature.
The waiting was tiresome and wearing, and at last they grew vexed that Oz should treat them in so poor a fashion, after sending them to undergo hardships and slavery.
Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar.
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