"hard-working" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hard-working",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "harder working",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "harder-working",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hard-working",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hardest working",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hardest-working",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "more",
        "2": "harder working",
        "3": "harder-working",
        "sup2": "hardest working",
        "sup3": "hardest-working"
      },
      "expansion": "hard-working (comparative more hard-working or harder working or harder-working, superlative most hard-working or hardest working or hardest-working)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "hardworking"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “\"The Aberdonian\" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, pages 3, 5",
          "text": "Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, David Ogilvy, “How to Get Clients”, in Confessions of an Advertising Man, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →LCCN, page 29",
          "text": "Observation of my elders and betters in other advertising agencies leads me to believe that many of them are more objective, better organized, more vigorous, and harder-working than their opposite numbers in legal practice, teaching, banking, and journalism.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Reza Pakravan, “Motherland”, in Kapp to Cape: Never Look Back; Race to the End of the Earth, Chichester, West Sussex: Summersdale Publishers, part two (Leg One), page 133",
          "text": "‘I could say a million things about you, but the one thing I could never say is that you’re lazy. You’re one of the hardest-working men I’ve ever known.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3",
          "text": "One other thing: throughout all this, the railway has remained home for thousands of dedicated, hard-working people. They're out there in all conditions ensuring that 1.7 billion passenger journeys can be made per year.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of hardworking"
      ],
      "id": "en-hard-working-en-adj-LhSwem~o",
      "links": [
        [
          "hardworking",
          "hardworking#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hard-working"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hard-working",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "harder working",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "harder-working",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hard-working",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hardest working",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hardest-working",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "more",
        "2": "harder working",
        "3": "harder-working",
        "sup2": "hardest working",
        "sup3": "hardest-working"
      },
      "expansion": "hard-working (comparative more hard-working or harder working or harder-working, superlative most hard-working or hardest working or hardest-working)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "hardworking"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “\"The Aberdonian\" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, pages 3, 5",
          "text": "Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, David Ogilvy, “How to Get Clients”, in Confessions of an Advertising Man, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →LCCN, page 29",
          "text": "Observation of my elders and betters in other advertising agencies leads me to believe that many of them are more objective, better organized, more vigorous, and harder-working than their opposite numbers in legal practice, teaching, banking, and journalism.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Reza Pakravan, “Motherland”, in Kapp to Cape: Never Look Back; Race to the End of the Earth, Chichester, West Sussex: Summersdale Publishers, part two (Leg One), page 133",
          "text": "‘I could say a million things about you, but the one thing I could never say is that you’re lazy. You’re one of the hardest-working men I’ve ever known.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3",
          "text": "One other thing: throughout all this, the railway has remained home for thousands of dedicated, hard-working people. They're out there in all conditions ensuring that 1.7 billion passenger journeys can be made per year.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of hardworking"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hardworking",
          "hardworking#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hard-working"
}