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hard•ship



Pronunciation: (härd'ship), [key]
—n.
1. a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
2. an instance or cause of this; something hard to bear, as a deprivation, lack of comfort, or constant toil or danger: They faced bravely the many hardships of frontier life.

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