facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"
a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights
extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"