Usually means: Achieved through significant effort, struggle.
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  1. hard-won: Merriam-Webster
  2. hard-won, hard-won: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hard-won: Wordnik
  4. hard-won: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. hard-won: Wiktionary
  6. hard-won: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. hard-won: FreeDictionary.org
  8. hard-won: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Having been obtained with effort, despite difficulty and hardship.

Similar:
hard-earned, hard-fought, hardfought, difficult, hard, hard as nails, hard-run, case-hardened, trying, hard put, more...

Opposite:
easily won, effortlessly won, simply won

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Similar:
hard-earned, hard-fought, hardfought, difficult, hard, hard as nails, hard-run, case-hardened, trying, hard put, more...

Opposite:
easily won, effortlessly won, simply won



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