hard-hit
See also: hard hit
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hard-hit (comparative more hard-hit or harder-hit, superlative most hard-hit or hardest-hit)
- Alternative spelling of hard hit
- 1963 April, “Winter on the Waverley”, in Modern Railways, page 281, photo caption:
- Hard-hit by the Arctic winter, the Waverley route was completely closed from January 6-9, when an avalanche between Whitrope and Riccarton marooned Class A2 4-6-2 No. 60535 Hornet's Beauty.
- 1996, Terry Lee Anderson, Peter Jensen Hill, The Privatization Process: A Worldwide Perspective, page 160:
- Reading down both columns, the most hard-hit area, deathwise, was Sichuan and the most hard-hit area, birthwise, was Anhui province.
- 2020 April 22, Katie Lobosco and Curt Merrill, “California got the most money but more Texas businesses got coronavirus relief than anywhere else”, in CNN[1]:
- More small businesses in Texas were approved for money from the federal government’s initial coronavirus emergency lending program than in any other state – including harder-hit New York, California and Florida.
- 2022 March 18, Dake Kang, Huizhong Wu, “China weighs exit from ‘zero COVID’ and the risks involved”, in AP News[2], archived from the original on 18 March 2022:
- In mainland China, authorities have shut down travel out of and within the hardest-hit province, Jilin in the northeast. More than 1,800 cases were reported in Jilin on Friday, out of 2,400 nationwide. Restrictions were partially eased, however, in Shenzhen, a major tech and finance hub bordering Hong Kong that had been locked down since Sunday.