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What does hard-won mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hard-won? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having been obtained with effort, despite difficulty and hardship.
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The film is divided by its opening credits sequence, which breaks the film's hard-won mood with a brash pop-song.
It is a book of hard-won wisdom and stark pleasure in the form of 500 lyrical aphorisms and epigrams.
It diverts the public's attention away from decades of cuts in hard-won government programs for income security.
He reasons that they would fare much better if they worked to maintain that hard-won loyalty.
Activists view the department's changes as a serious threat to hard-won standards for organic products.
And Americans are divested of yet another of their hard-won personal liberties.

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