1 having a lot of problems, especially too much work, and too little time or money:
Hard-pressed junior doctors want shorter working hours.
2 ~ to do sth finding sth very difficult to do:
You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is hard-pressed a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hard-pressed is tagged as adjective.
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