Meaning of hard hit | Babel Free

Definitions

In severe difficulties; greatly affected by a problem.

Examples

“East Coast ports, with old-established stockfishmongers and “stockfish rows”, hard hit by the collapse of business with Bergen, were naturally foremost in developing the possibilities of Iceland.”

““As typical of a flu season, some areas are being harder hit than other areas,” said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.”

“In fact, accommodation and food services, which has been hardest hit by the Great Resignation, has also created one out of every three net new jobs in 2021. Does that make any sense? Only if you think about this as a job-switching revolution.”

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