hard-working

hard-working (comparative more hard-working or harder working or harder-working, superlative most hard-working or hardest working or hardest-working)

1. Alternative form of hardworking
   • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, pages 3, 5:

     Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed.

   • 1963, David Ogilvy, “How to Get Clients”, in Confessions of an Advertising Man, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →LCCN, page 29:

     Observation of my elders and betters in other advertising agencies leads me to believe that many of them are more objective, better organized, more vigorous, and harder-working than their opposite numbers in legal practice, teaching, banking, and journalism.

   • 2017, Reza Pakravan, “Motherland”, in Kapp to Cape: Never Look Back; Race to the End of the Earth, Chichester, West Sussex: Summersdale Publishers, →ISBN, part two (Leg One), page 133:

     ‘I could say a million things about you, but the one thing I could never say is that you’re lazy. You’re one of the hardest-working men I’ve ever known.’

   • 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3:

     One other thing: throughout all this, the railway has remained home for thousands of dedicated, hard-working people. They're out there in all conditions ensuring that 1.7 billion passenger journeys can be made per year.

• hard-working, hardworking at Google Ngram Viewer
• “hard-working”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.