hard-working

See also: hardworking

English

Adjective

hard-working (comparative more hard-working or harder working, superlative most hard-working or hardest working)

1. Alternative form of hardworking
   • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, pages 3, 5:

     Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed.

   • 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3:

     One other thing: throughout all this, the railway has remained home for thousands of dedicated, hard-working people. They're out there in all conditions ensuring that 1.7 billion passenger journeys can be made per year.

Further reading

• hard-working, hardworking at Google Ngram Viewer
• “hard-working”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.