hardship

CEFRB2

/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/

noun

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noun
A difficult condition that causes suffering or trouble.
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noun
Extra detail
A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
When you visit the museum, we invite you to make a donation of $10 if this will not be a hardship.
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.

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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.
1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377
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.
2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival”, in Rail, page 26
[…] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]
1969, Tract Series, numbers 96-129, page 529
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.
1970, Reading Reform Foundation, The Annual Reading Reform Foundation Conference, page 47

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From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard + -ship.