Collocations for "hardship"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "hardship" in context.
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hardship
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- the hardship of [winter, poverty, wartime]
- have had a lot of hardships in my life
- my life has been full of hardship
- have never known hardship
- the [layoff, tax increase] has been a hardship on [me, this family]
- didn't mean to cause you any hardship
- undergo severe hardship
- is an unnecessary hardship (to undergo)
- hardship [caused, brought about, imposed] by
- survived great hardship
- has known real hardship in her life
- has endured [years, decades] of hardships
- endured many hardships [growing up, in childhood]
- [economic, financial] hardship
- a life of hardship [under the regime, in the mine]
'hardship' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):