ADJECTIVE
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facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
distressed companies need loans and technical advice
we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment
financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices
found themselves in a bad way financially
How To Use hard put In A Sentence
- Quite where messing about became a full-blown profession he is hard put to say, but from life as a humble trimmer, he joined the ill-fated GBR America's Cup challenge where he ‘fell into navigating by accident’.
- He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
- Mr Morton is undoubtedly cleverer than Mr Kirkby, but he will be hard put to match his popularity.
- We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.
- we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment
- They'll be hard put to get here before dawn.
- It's a stunning scene, but so muted and unsensational in its presentation that you're hard put to know how to react.
- We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.
- Now we were hard put to find a grubby corner of the upper dock in which to berth Venturous.
- I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment!
