hard up

adjective informal

Definition

› (UK also hard-up) having very little money: It is not only pensioners in villages who are hard up. Three hard-up governments are preparing to sell shares in state-owned assets in the next two weeks.

be hard up (for sth) › to not have enough of something important or valuable: They're hard up for options because of their financial troubles.

(Definition of hard up adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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