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Meaning of hard-nosed

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

hard-nosed

Pronunciation:

adjective

Definitions

  1. Guided by practical experience and observation rather than by theory

  2. Hardheaded, stubborn

  3. (of a person) tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hard-nosed

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