hardship

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   something that causes or entails suffering

   I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women- James Boswell

2. 2
   noun

   Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

   He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

3. 3
   noun

   A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.

   When you visit the museum, we invite you to make a donation of $10 if this will not be a hardship.

4. 4
   verb

   To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.

   […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]

5. 5
   noun

   something hard to endure

6. 6
   noun

   a state of misfortune or affliction

Etymology

From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard + -ship.