Definition of "hard-set" [hard-set]

• Fixed; rigid. (adjective)

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• "Continue funding shuttle with an extension until at least 2012, but not hard-set like it is now."
• "There is no hard-set rule on what land can be developed; in general, virgin forest cannot, farmland can."
• "He has a fiery intensity to his stare that seems to radiate throughout his hard-set face."