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Definition: Hard-pressed |
Hard-pressedAdjective1. Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hard-pressed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonyms: Hard-pressedSynonyms: distressed (adj), hard put (adj), in a bad way(p) (adj), in trouble(p) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hard-pressed |
| English words defined with "hard-pressed": distressed ♦ hard put ♦ in a bad way, in trouble. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Slovenia | The government will be hard-pressed to meet this major challenge of harmonization with EU law. (references) |
Bahrain | The highest standards of financial regulations, efficient procedures, and political stability have given this small island nation a standard of commercial activity with which other Gulf countries are hard-pressed to compete. (references) | |
Nigeria | In late 1998, the government effectively ended indirect fuel subsidies by allowing domestic fuel prices to double to the equivalent of $1 per gallon (the government cut its tax take to give more to hard-pressed down-stream operators). (references) | |
Trade | Korea | The Korean financial system is perennially hard-pressed to meet the demand for financing and capital. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Public welfare cannot help those too proud to seek relief but hard-pressed to pay their own bills. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | For hard-pressed middle-income families, we should also expand the child care tax credit. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Hard-pressed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hard-pressed" is used about 149 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 149 | 25,810 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "hard-pressed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | zaklatott (distracted, harassed, hardpressed, to be all of a sweat, to be in a sweat, troubled). (various references) | |
Manx | throng (busy, harassed, tied up, tied up busy), chionn (austere, busy, delicate, erect, erect as penis, fast, firm, firmly, hardy, inflated, speedy, stiff, stuck fast, taut, tense, tight-fitting). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ard-pressedhay.(various references) | |
Thai | à¸à¸±à¸•à¸„ัà¸". (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-h-p-r-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: addresser, headdress, readdress, rephrased, rephrases, reshapers, respreads, shredders, spreaders. | |
-3 letters: adherers, aspersed, asperser, ephedras, redheads, repassed, rephrase, reshaped, reshaper, reshapes, respaded, respades, respread, sharpers, shearers, shedders, shredder, spearers, spreader. | |
-4 letters: address, adhered, adherer, adheres, apheses, asperse, dashers, deashed, deashes, depress, drapers, dressed, dresser, ephedra, erasers, harpers, headers, hearers, hearsed, hearses, herders, padders, pareses, parsers, pesades, phrased, phrases, pressed, presser, rashers, raspers, readers, reapers, redders, redears, redhead, redress, reheard, rehears, repress, rereads, resedas, reshape, respade, serapes, seraphs, shaders, shapers, sharers, sharped, sharper, sheared, shearer, shedder, sherpas, spaders, spahees, sparers, sparred, sparser, speared, spearer, sphered, spheres, spreads. | |
-5 letters: adders, adhere, aspers, darers, dashed, dasher, dashes, deader, dearer, draped, draper, drapes, dreads, drears, erased, eraser, erases, haeres, harder, harped, harper, hasped, headed, header, heaped, hearer, hearse, heders, herded, herder, herpes, padder, padres, pardee, parers, parred, parsed, parser, parses, pashed, pashes, passed, passee, passer, peases, perses, pesade, phased, phases, phrase, prases, rapers, raphes, rasers, rasher, rashes, rasped, rasper, readds, reader, reaped, reaper, reared, redder, redear, rehear, repass, reread, reseda, reshes, sadder, sadhes, sarees, sashed, seared, searer, seders, serape, seraph, shaded, shader, shades, shaped, shaper, shapes, shards, shared, sharer, shares, sharps, shears, sheers, sherds, sherpa, shreds, spaded, spader, spades, spahee, spared, sparer, spares, sparse, spears, speeds, speers, sphere, spread, sprees. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 72 64 2D 70 72 65 73 73 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110010 01100100 00101101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a r d - p r e s s e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0072 0064 002D 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)426784701582847185857170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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