Betekenis van hard core In het Nederlands

• 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:

  • The hard core of the party has not lost sight of the original ideals.

• 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:

  • hard-core party members

• 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:

  • A hard core of investors remain deeply concerned about the company's strategy and the make-up of the board.

• 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.

  • He will focus more on fighting hard-core antitrust cases.

  • 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