hard-earned money
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhard-earnedandmoney
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hard-earned
adjective
uk/ˌhɑːdˈɜːnd/us/ˌhɑːrdˈɝːnd/
If something is hard-earned, you deserve it because you have worked hard ...
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money
noun[U]
uk/ˈmʌn.i/us/ˈmʌn.i/
coins or notes (= special pieces of paper) that are used to buy things, or an amount of these that a ...
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It cannot be used as an argument for agreeing to spend a further £6,500,000 of the taxpayers'hard-earnedmoney.
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A large part of what the housewife buys withhard-earnedmoneyhas to be discarded and thrown away.
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They understand that theirhard-earnedmoneyis being taken from them and given to an institution which we are told is riddled with fraud.
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Conservative proposals will allow pensioners to keep more of theirhard-earnedmoneyand maintain their independence from the state.
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Every year millions of ordinary working-class families invest theirhard-earnedmoneyin package holidays, and the vast majority of them have to save very hard.
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It is a con to persuade people to part withhard-earnedmoneyto make profits for unscrupulous traders.
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People give theirhard-earnedmoneyto a cause in which they believe and are often vilified, possibly unjustly.
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That is why we are prepared to pay taxpayers'hard-earnedmoney—to enhance those things that the public want to see.
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Why should working people in the state scheme pay theirhard-earnedmoneyto do the pension companies' recruitment job for them?
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Why should they pay part of theirhard-earnedmoneyto keep people who should not be here in the first place?
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Then, let us see to it in the future thathard-earnedmoneyraised in this country, is not exported in the wrong direction.
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That is not essentially different from somebody who has saved theirhard-earnedmoneyto buy a better house.
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Local people naturally resent theirhard-earnedmoneygoing to support people who happen to be in their area for a short time.
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Then he could do something useful instead of pontificating to empty churches and the rest of us about how people should spend theirhard-earnedmoney.
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I am sure that the ordinary people in the country have no desire to squander theirhard-earnedmoneyon these places all over the country.
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Otherwise, we are just cheating people by taking theirhard-earnedmoneyand eventually paying them back in money that is worth less.
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Unless the public have decided to join, they should not be forced to spend theirhard-earnedmoneyon a changeover plan.
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I am sure the public would like to know why they cannot be informed of the expenditure of £700 million of theirhard-earnedmoney.
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He seems to forget that tenants have paidhard-earnedmoneyfor years for the right to live in those houses.
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We have to get the balance right; otherwise, we cannot expect our fellow citizens to put theirhard-earnedmoneyinto long-term products such as pensions.
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