单词 | hardball |
释义 | hardball (once / 22556 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY hardball: hardballs USAGE EXAMPLESFedEx Corp. is playing hardball with some e-commerce shippers as the package delivery giant strains to manage the surge in holiday shopping packages. Wall Street Journal(Dec 21, 2016) It is political hardball, intended to maximize partisan advantage within the rules of the game, often by pressing or breaking norms. The New Yorker(Dec 20, 2016) Seattle School District scares parents to play budget hardball. Seattle Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1 n baseball as distinguished from softball 2Ant|Hyper softball, softball game a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger and softer baseball, baseball game a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs n a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics they play hardball in the Senate Hyper attitude, mental attitude a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways |
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