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 hard put
      adj : facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the
            troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need
            loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed
            Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were
            hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was
            apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found
            themselves in a bad way financially" [syn: distressed,
             hard-pressed, in a bad way(p), in trouble(p)]