Found 2 items, similar to hard-pressed.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: hard-pressed hard-pressed adj : facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; “the troubled car industry”; “distressed companies need loans and technical advice”; “financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices”; “we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng”; “it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble”; “found themselves in a bad way financially” [syn: distressed, hard put, in a bad way(p), in trouble(p)]
English → English (gcide) Definition: hard-pressed hard-pressed \hard-pressed\ adj. facing or experiencing trouble or difficulty; as, financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices; they were hard-pressed to find a substitute on short notice; -- see distressed[1]. Syn: distressed, hard put, in a bad way(predicate), in trouble(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]