hard-pressed

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

hard-pressed
    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)}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hard-pressed \hard-pressed\ adj.
   facing or experiencing trouble or difficulty; as, financially
   hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices; they
   were hard-pressed to find a substitute on short notice; --
   see {distressed}[1].

   Syn: distressed, hard put, in a bad way(predicate), in
        trouble(predicate).
        [WordNet 1.5]

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