Definition of "hard-working" []

• Tending to work with ardour (adjective)

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• "He is presenting himself as a man who has little time for the chattering classes, the academics and lawyers and newspaper columnists who will recoil from the spectre of reviving chain gangs, and all the time in the world for the people he describes as "hard-working Ontarians who play by the rules.""
• "Mr Flanagan, an engineer by trade, was described as a hard-working man by locals."
• "The main beneficiaries are what politicians like to call "hard-working families" in the south-east of England being squeezed by spiralling private sector rents."