0 a small group of people within a larger group, who strongly believe in the group's principles and usually have a lot of power in it:
1 the pieces of broken stone, brick, etc. used to make the base under a floor, path, or road
2 showing sexual acts clearly and in detail:
hard-core pornography
3 used to describe people who strongly believe in something:
4 unlikely to change, or difficult to change:
hard-core poverty
a hard-core conservative
5 the people who are the most interested and involved in an organization, group, or activity:
6 serious or difficult to deal with and unlikely to change:
Hard-core unemployment usually results when a worker is disabled and is not able to work.
The two counties are predominantly sprawling suburbs and shore towns, with relatively few pockets of hard-core poverty and crime.
hard-core homeless/unemployed
7 used to describe the people who are most interested and involved in an organization, group, or activity:
What the hard-core environmentalists want is punitive fossil-fuel restrictions.
hard-core fans/supporters
hard-core insurgents/terrorists
The hard core itself is taken for granted and remains relatively insulated.
This 'hard core' kept their mouths closed, and languished for years in detention.
However, many mainstream economists have retained a modified notion of individual rationality, expressing some conceptual continuity in the hard core of the science.
The hard core resulted from the neglect of frail, isolated, sick and dispossessed elderly people.
We propose that the population of those in long-term care in care homes represent the new hard core.
But in the meantime, those still wanting sons were part of the hard core.
This, concludes the author punningly, is genuine hard core material, ' ' what it means to be, the rest all illusion.
Both hard core and soft core had their families in mind.
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信仰, (團體的)中堅分子,骨幹力量,核心力量, 石頭/磚…
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信仰, (团体的)中坚分子,骨干力量,核心力量, 石头/砖…
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intenso/nsa [masculine-feminine], comprometido/ida [masculine-feminine], hardcore [masculine-feminine]…
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zatwardziały, wierny, twardy…
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