adjective
- Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: distressed, hard-pressed, in a bad way
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