hard-up


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Related to hard-up: hard knocks, Hard boiled eggs
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hard-up

[ˌhɑːdˈʌp] adj (fam) → al verde
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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SUPERMARKETS stepped up their price war as Asda claimed it was winning the battle for hard-up customers.
Deputy Speaker National Youth Assembly, Anum Javaid Cheema told that women wing of NYA would not fall behind to make this campaign successful, and like last year, we would spare no effort to help deprived and hard-ups.
Few of the hard-ups and fed-ups, and the host of correspondents who write as if they were the only folk who paid their taxes, would dream of offering their services for the thankless task of being local councillors - our councillors whose services are rarely appreciated and usually undervalued.