hard-pressed
hard-pressed • adj. 1. closely pursued: the hard-pressed French infantry.2. burdened with urgent business: training centers are hard-pressed and insufficient in numbers. ∎ (also hard pressed) in difficulties: creating jobs in the hard-pressed construction industry | many families will be hard pressed to support their elderly relations.
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