hard put

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
hard put
    adj 1: facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty;
           "distressed companies need loans and technical advice";
           "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering
           their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage
           payment"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"
           [syn: {distressed}, {hard-pressed}, {hard put}, {in a bad
           way(p)}]