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The tuition fee life charges for character, payable in installments you never chose.
means A condition of serious difficulty, suffering, or deprivation that makes life hard to bear.
from Built from 'hard' plus the suffix '-ship,' which denotes a state or condition (as in 'friendship' or 'hardship's cousins kinship and worship). The word has meant 'a condition of difficulty, privation, or suffering' since Middle English — a plain, load-bearing compound with no hidden twist: it means exactly what it looks like it means.
- same suffix
- as friendship, lordship, worship
- hardscrabble
- related word for barely livable farmland
- legal term
- hardship clauses excuse contracts in extreme circumstances
- not misfortune
- implies ongoing struggle, not one bad event