hardwearingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

hard +‎ wearing

形容詞

hard-wearing (comparative more hard-wearing, superlative most hard-wearing)

1. Able to withstand a significant amount of usage without physical deterioration; durable.
   • 1959 September, “The Re-appraisal of the B.R. Modernisation Plan”, in Trains Illustrated, page 411:

     Throughout B.R. activity to improve drainage and ballast, to lay in more long-welded rails [...] and concrete sleepers, and to provide more hard-wearing pointwork and crossings will be intensified in the next four years.