Vad betyder hard-pressed på svenska och vad är definitionen av hard-pressed?

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hard-pressed betydelse and definition

0 having a lot of difficulties doing something, especially because there is not enough time or money:
- The latest education reforms have put extra pressure on teachers who are already hard-pressed.
- Because of shortages, the emergency services were hard-pressed to deal with the accident.
- Most people would be hard-pressed (= would find it difficult) to name more than half a dozen members of the government.
1 experiencing a lot of difficulty:
- Most people would be hard-pressed to name all their elected officials.
2 experiencing a lot of difficulty, especially because there is not enough time or money:
- Michigan's hard-pressed manufacturing sector shed another 2,000 jobs.
- hard-pressed to do sth They received $71.50 a share when many analysts had predicted the company would be hard-pressed to find an offer higher than $70.

I am hard-pressed to find shortcomings in this book.
Still, a book of this size would be hard-pressed to exhaust the coverage.
Beyond that, however, one is hard-pressed to find instances where the pattern could be considered a hook.
I would be hard-pressed to identify any that could have been displaced by marquee players.
Indeed, so entwined are public-interest arguments in the political and governmental structures of advanced democracies that we would be hard-pressed to do without them.
No wonder, then, that its hard-pressed neighbours to the east encouraged vagrants to walk a little further before seeking a bed for the night.
A note-based method works at the level of trees but is hard-pressed to create a forest, except as a collection of trees.
Thus, the peninsula is hard-pressed to maintain current log production levels to feed these industries.