Source : WordNet®

hard put
     adj : facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the
           troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need
           loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed
           Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were
           hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was
           apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found
           themselves in a bad way financially" [syn: {distressed},
            {hard-pressed}, {in a bad way(p)}, {in trouble(p)}]