hard put English

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hard put

— adjective (= distressed, hard-pressed, in a bad way) facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty distressed companies need loans and technical advice financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment found themselves in a bad way financially

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in a bad way

hard-pressed

distressed