Usually means: Difficulty or suffering due to adversity.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardship: Merriam-Webster
  2. hardship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hardship: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hardship: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hardship: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hardship, hardship: Wordnik
  7. hardship: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hardship: Wiktionary
  9. hardship: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hardship: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hardship: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hardship, hardship: Dictionary.com
  13. hardship: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hardship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hardship: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hardship: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hardship: Rhymezone
  18. hardship: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hardship: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hardship: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hardship: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hardship: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. hardship: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardship: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. hardship: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hardship: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
noun:  A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.
verb:  (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.

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