"pain point" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pain points [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pain point (plural pain points)
  1. (business, finance) A difficult or challenging aspect of something. Categories (topical): Business, Finance Translations (difficult aspect): 痛點 (Chinese Mandarin), 痛点 (tòngdiǎn) [literally] (Chinese Mandarin), 難題 (Chinese Mandarin), 难题 (nántí) (Chinese Mandarin), 困境 (kùnjìng) (Chinese Mandarin), kipukohta (Finnish), kipupiste (Finnish), irritant [masculine] (French)

Inflected forms

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