hard-wearing

See also: hardwearing

English

Alternative forms

• hardwearing

Etymology

From hard +‎ wearing.

Adjective

hard-wearing (comparative more hard-wearing, superlative most hard-wearing)

1. Able to withstand a significant amount of usage without physical deterioration; durable.
   • 1959 September, “The Re-appraisal of the B.R. Modernisation Plan”, in Trains Illustrated, page 411:

     Throughout B.R. activity to improve drainage and ballast, to lay in more long-welded rails [...] and concrete sleepers, and to provide more hard-wearing pointwork and crossings will be intensified in the next four years.

Translations

wear-resistant

• Bulgarian: траен (bg) (traen), износоустойчив (iznosoustojčiv)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 襟著 / 襟着 (kam¹ zoek⁸), 襟磨 (kam¹ mo⁴)

  Mandarin: 經穿的 / 经穿的 (jīngchuānde), 耐磨的 (nàimóde), 耐磨耐穿的 (nàimónàichuānde)

• Greek: ανθεκτικός (el) (anthektikós)
• Irish: buanfasach
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slitesterk

  Nynorsk: slitesterk

• Swedish: slitstark (sv)