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      • a hard effort or fight to do or get something: a struggle for sth There was a struggle for control of the company. a struggle against sth The struggle against drugs took up much of the police's time and manpower. something that is extremely difficult to achieve: We completed the project, but it was a struggle.
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  2. a hard effort or fight to do or get something: a struggle for sth There was a struggle for control of the company. a struggle against sth The struggle against drugs took up much of the police's time and manpower. something that is extremely difficult to achieve: We completed the project, but it was a struggle.

  3. The meaning of STRUGGLE is to make strenuous or violent efforts in the face of difficulties or opposition. How to use struggle in a sentence.

  4. to try very hard to do something difficult: [ + to do sth ] He's struggling to pay off his debts. More examples. Fewer examples. His parents were rich, whereas mine had to struggle. I struggle to balance work and family commitments. We struggled up a steep ascent.

  5. A struggle is an attempt to obtain something or to defeat someone who is denying you something.

  6. Something that can only be accomplished with great effort is said to be a struggle. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader in the Civil Rights struggle. Alice Paul was a leader in the struggle for a woman's right to vote. The verb form of struggle can be used for physical or mental effort.

  7. struggle. [intransitive] to try very hard to do something when it is difficult or when there are a lot of problems. struggle for something Shona struggled for breath. struggle to do something The firm is struggling to cope with the demand for its products.

  8. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English strug‧gle1 /ˈstrʌɡəl/ W3 verb [ intransitive] 1 to try extremely hard to achieve something, even though it is very difficult struggle to do something She’s struggling to bring up a family alone. struggle with The airline is struggling with high costs. struggle for Millions of people are ...

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