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Meaning of hard time | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Difficulties; a difficult time; trouble.
    colloquial, countable
  2. A prison term.
    colloquial, uncountable

Equivalents

Deutsch schwere Zeit
Español mal trago
Suomi hankaluudet vaikeudet
Français Problèmes

Examples

“They had a hard time putting the self-assembly furniture together without a manual.”
“The day passed without further incident. As did the next. And then the next. Until, eventually, Agnes began to have a hard time believing that anything strange had ever happened at all.”
“Jack got hard time for his part in the robbery.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

hard truth hard up hard vore hard war hard water hard wheat

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