Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Suffering distress.
- adjective Economically blighted; impoverished.
- adjective At risk of being foreclosed on.
- adjective For sale at a low price, as from being damaged, especially at a price below market value.
- adjective Intentionally marred or faded to convey an antique or used look.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Suffering distress; exciting pity; miserable: as, a poor distressed object of charity. Also
distrest .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty.
- adjective experienceing a generalized feeling of distress.
- adjective suffering severe physical strain or discomfort.
- adjective emotionally upset.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
anxious oruneasy - adjective of merchandise, etc.
damaged - adjective of a property offered for
sale afterforeclosure - adjective of furniture etc
faded orabused in order to appear old, orantique - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
distress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective generalized feeling of distress
- adjective suffering severe physical strain or distress
- adjective facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- adjective afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
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Examples
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I think the term distressed is no longer one that's used in sort of the normal course of describing the New York City office building market.
unknown title 2011
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Phoebe Caldwell prefers to use the term distressed behaviour rather than challenging behaviour.
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In its Southgate appeals brief, the government says that Beal used what it calls the distressed asset/debt or "DAD" shelter multiple times to "stockpile over $4 billion in artificial losses to shelter future income."
Billionaire Banker Beal Wins Timing Victory On Tax Shelter 2010
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In its Southgate appeals brief, the government says that Beal used what it calls the distressed asset/debt or "DAD" shelter multiple times to "stockpile over $4 billion in artificial losses to shelter future income."
Billionaire Banker Beal Wins Timing Victory On Tax Shelter 2010
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We want to be very careful in what we spend money on and how, and so specifically regarding acquisitions, we've seen a few interesting situations to-date in the last couple months but there haven't been a large flow of what I described as distressed sales yet.
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We want to be very careful in what we spend money on and how, and so specifically regarding acquisitions, we've seen a few interesting situations to-date in the last couple months but there haven't been a large flow of what I described as distressed sales yet.
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The first is to create a network to supply public middle school and high school band programs in distressed counties of Appalachia with new and used supplies and instruments.
Greatest Person Of The Day: Ian Felton, Founder Of Marching Mountains The Huffington Post 2010
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The second is to improve the quality of band programs in distressed regions of Appalachia and Appalachia in general.
Greatest Person Of The Day: Ian Felton, Founder Of Marching Mountains The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The second is to improve the quality of band programs in distressed regions of Appalachia and Appalachia in general.
Greatest Person Of The Day: Ian Felton, Founder Of Marching Mountains The Huffington Post 2010
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The second is to improve the quality of band programs in distressed regions of Appalachia and Appalachia in general.
Greatest Person Of The Day: Ian Felton, Founder Of Marching Mountains The Huffington Post 2010
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February 15, 2013