financial difficulty

collocation in English

meaningsoffinancialanddifficulty

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financial
adjective
uk
/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/
us
/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/
relating to money or how money ...
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difficulty
noun
uk
/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəl.ti/
us
/ˈdɪf.ə.kəl.t̬i/
the fact of not being easy to do ...
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(Definition offinancialanddifficultyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This suggests that non-elderly adults can have relatively high incomes, while incurring debt and still report material and evenfinancialdifficulty.
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In the summer of 1994, the situation had changed significantly and many more homes were in some degree offinancialdifficulty.
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We can without muchfinancialdifficultymaintain it until well into the 1980s if we wish.
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The younger people havefinancialdifficultyin carrying on their council work.
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I cannot in the present time offinancialdifficultygo beyond the terms of that circular.
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The national minimum wage, although welcome in many respects, is adding to thatfinancialdifficulty.
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He has nofinancialdifficultyin arranging for his children's education.
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Farmers in my constituency, which is a substantial sheep farming area, are suffering considerablefinancialdifficulty.
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They are living in conditions of greatfinancialdifficulty, quite unable to keep up the status which is expected of them in their position.
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But the railways were brought, by the lack of transport and this unfair competition, to a position of realfinancialdifficulty.
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We know that that business is in seriousfinancialdifficultytoday.
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His decision has come at a time of greatfinancialdifficultyand of unprecedented parliamentary events.
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Obviously, no one likes to see a business infinancialdifficulty.
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Then there was thefinancialdifficulty, which was very grave.
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They know that the health service faces very difficult times, particularly in the next few years offinancialdifficulty.
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This fund is concerned with travel firms which run intofinancialdifficulty.
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Having introduced that measure, we are putting a number of vulnerable groups into gravefinancialdifficulty.
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Traditionally, this country has always got intofinancialdifficultywhen we have attempted to keep large standing forces in different parts of the world.
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Had the universities admitted overseas students without charging a fee, they would have been in even greaterfinancialdifficulty.
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