economic hardship
noun[CorU]
ukusECONOMICS
difficultycausedby having too littlemoneyor too fewresources:
Thegovernmentissteppingin,recognizingtheireconomichardship, andpayingtheinterestontheirloanfor thatperiod.
Theeconomichardshipssheobservedat thattimeweresimilarto some of what shesawtoday.