Hard-wearing means standing up to heavy use without wearing through. A hard-wearing carpet, hard-wearing boots, hard-wearing fabric.
It is the quality that costs money at the start and saves it afterwards, which is the whole argument for buying well once. Britain says hard-wearing where America says durable.
1adjectivehard-wearingStanding up to heavy use without wearing through.
“We chose a hard-wearing carpet for the hallway because the kids and the dog run through it all day.”
hard-wearing is a quality.
Hard plus wearing, from wear in the sense of being worn away by use.
From hard + wearing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Repair & Damage