Hard Line Definition

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hardline
noun
A firm, uncompromising policy or position.
American Heritage

(business) A retail product collection consisting primarily of hardware targeting the do-it-yourself customer.

Wiktionary

(business) A retail product collection which includes many non-information goods, such as home appliances, housewares, sporting goods, in addition to the DIY hardware which is the focus of the first definition, above.

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adjective
Characterized by an aggressive, unyielding position in politics, foreign policy, etc.
Webster's New World

Uncompromising; rigidly holding to a set of beliefs.

Wiktionary
(business) Belonging to a hardline (business noun sense); e.g. "hardline product"
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Alternative spelling of hardline.
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Synonyms:
  • hardline

Origin of Hard Line

  • hard + line The term does not appear in either the 1913 or 1838 versions of Webster's Dictionary (confirmed at the ARTFL Project).

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Hard Line Sentence Examples

  • His lips formed a hard line and his eyes turned cold.

  • Mix a little sincerity and gumption in your hard-line approach, and perhaps you'll get somewhere and not antagonize others.

  • It was filmed in Greece in 1974, at no small risk, under the hard-line rule of the Greek colonels ' junta.

  • I think some hard-line evangelicals have trouble with the idea of Grace.

  • One is the increasingly hard-line approach taken by the European Union.

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