Definition of "hard-earned" []

• Earned with difficulty or hard work.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Players including Chris Ashton, Toby Flood and Dylan Hartley enjoyed the evening in Queenstown following the victory over Argentina, which the RFU described as 'hard-earned'."
• "In the future, you could tell a friend you need to drop by a yínháng, rather than a bank.iii In this imagined future, a yínháng whose capital is derived from carbon emissions credits, rather than property mortgages, would be substantively different from a bank, and a better place to stow your hard-earned savings."
• "Ordinary Americans with new, extraordinary desires were voting with their feet and their hard-earned money every day, electing new lives for themselves and a new way of life for everyone."