1. hard-earned - Noun
2. hard-earned - Adjective
hard-earned (comparative harder-earned or more hard-earned, superlative hardest-earned or most hard-earned)
Having been obtained with a great deal of effort.
This is my hard-earned money, and I can spend it how I see fit.
It was a hard-earned victory for the team.
hard-earned (uncountable)
(slang) Money that one owns.
hard earned
To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don't like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me! Jon Stewart
"Now, you have to tighten your belts, because we, your leaders, mis-spent your hard-earned money." Know what would make tightening my belt a little easier? If I could tighten it around Jesse Helms' scrawny little chicken-neck. Bill Hicks
But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors. Barack Obama
I believe that humanity has an uphill battle to wage in its fight to attain real health, and I honestly believe - from hard-earned experience - that homeopathy can offer some solution to this problem. George Vithoulkas
For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment. Grace Napolitano
Too many people in Connecticut are struggling right now, and the last thing we need is meddling politicians making things worse. Only by cutting deficit spending, reducing burdensome regulations, and letting people keep more of their hard-earned dollars will we get our economy back on track. Peter Schiff