hard put

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hard put - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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)
             ]