hardship
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hardship
- /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/ US
- /ˈhɑːdˌʃɪp/ UK
Where it comes from
From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard + -ship.
noun hardships
- 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.
verb hardships · hardshipping · hardshipped
- 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 […]
