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uphill battles

uphill battles is the plural of uphill battle.

Meaning of uphill battle

Noun

uphill battle (plural uphill battles)

  1. (idiomatic) A highly difficult task or problem that requires a great amount of effort and determination.
    • I would argue that flight attendants had a greater uphill battle in establishing their job as a profession, experience more disorienting time and space patterns, juggle a larger number of sometimes conflicting roles, and have a greater sense of occupational identity than any other group of women...2007, Drew Whitelegg, Working the Skies, page 25

Questions about uphill battles

What is uphill battles the plural of?
Uphill battles is the plural of uphill battle.

Words near uphill battles in the dictionary

  1. upher
  2. uphers
  3. uphill
  4. uphill and downdale
  5. uphill battle
  6. uphill battles
  7. uphill climb
  8. uphill gardener
  9. uphill gardeners
  10. uphilled
  11. uphiller

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