battle-hardened

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battle-hardened

adjective more battle-hardened · most battle-hardened

  1. figuratively, literally Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience in battle; callous. Andy Lord has been at TfL for three years. He joined as managing director of London Underground in 2019, and subsequently became chief operating officer. But he was already battle-hardened by seven years as operations director for British Airways - the longest tenure of anyone in that similarly dema

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@misc{battle_hardened_2026,
  title = {battle-hardened},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/battle-hardened},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}