"hard-won" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "hard + won",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "harder-won",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more hard-won",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hardest-won",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most hard-won",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2020 November 9, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, in The A.V. Club",
          "text": "with those decades of life come many hard-won lessons, and at this stage of the game, McCartney’s not above preaching a bit.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 72",
          "text": "The League of Nations, meanwhile, suffered a credibility gap as the United States never joined the organisation that its President argued was essential for preserving the hard-won peace.",
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        "Having been obtained with effort, despite difficulty and hardship."
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          "obtain",
          "obtain"
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        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ],
        [
          "difficulty",
          "difficulty"
        ],
        [
          "hardship",
          "hardship"
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        {
          "word": "hard-earned"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hardwon"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "having been obtained with effort",
          "word": "來之不易的"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "láizhībùyì de",
          "sense": "having been obtained with effort",
          "word": "来之不易的"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "having been obtained with effort",
          "word": "kovalla työllä ansaittu"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "having been obtained with effort",
          "word": "dyrköpt"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hard-won"
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  "etymology_text": "hard + won",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "harder-won",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more hard-won",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hardest-won",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hard-won",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "harder-won",
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        "sup": "hardest-won"
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      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "word": "hard-earned"
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        },
        {
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          "text": "The League of Nations, meanwhile, suffered a credibility gap as the United States never joined the organisation that its President argued was essential for preserving the hard-won peace.",
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          "hardship",
          "hardship"
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    {
      "word": "hardwon"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "having been obtained with effort",
      "word": "來之不易的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "láizhībùyì de",
      "sense": "having been obtained with effort",
      "word": "来之不易的"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having been obtained with effort",
      "word": "kovalla työllä ansaittu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having been obtained with effort",
      "word": "dyrköpt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hard-won"
}