hardship
English
Etymology
From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard + -ship.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːdˌʃɪp/
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: hard‧ship
Noun
hardship (countable and uncountable, plural hardships)
- Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
- He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
- 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377:
- If train services of this kind were to be cut off, without any provision of alternative services, there would, of course, be hardship in some cases.
- 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival”, in Rail, page 26:
- The TUCC's role was to assess what (if any) hardship a BR closure proposal would cause, and to make recommendations to ministers who would have the final say.
- 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.
Antonyms
- softship
Translations
difficulty or trouble
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Verb
hardship (third-person singular simple present hardships, present participle hardshipping, simple past and past participle hardshipped)
- (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
- 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)
- […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]
- 1970, Reading Reform Foundation, The Annual Reading Reform Foundation Conference, page 47:
- Although we lost the election by the narrowest of margins, the people of Oregon heard a great deal about education, and particularly about how "look-say" reading instruction was hardshipping Oregon school children.
- 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)