grievance
noun/ˈɡriːvəns/
/ˈɡriːvəns/
- something that you think is unfair and that you complain or protest about; a feeling that you have been badly treated
- Parents were invited to air their grievances (= express them) at the meeting.
- These interviews aim to deal with individual grievances.
- grievance against somebody He had been nursing a grievance against his boss for months.
- Does the company have a formal grievance procedure (= a way of dealing with your complaints at work)?
Extra Examples- By the 1950s, political grievances were again being voiced.
- He had a personal grievance against the professor.
- MPs spend many hours listening to the real or imagined grievances of their constituents.
- Managers would make every effort to address individual grievances.
- No one would listen to their grievances.
- She still nursed her old grievance.
- Some people will complain even if they have no genuine grievance.
- The meeting will be a chance to air your grievances about the organization.
- The offer did nothing to take away her sense of grievance.
- We have to address the genuine grievances of the protesters.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- genuine
- legitimate
- real
- …
- harbour/harbor
- have
- nurse
- …
- procedure
- process
- committee
- …
- grievance about
- grievance over
- grievance against
- …
- a sense of grievance
Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘injury’): from Old French grevance, from grever ‘to burden’, based on Latin gravare, from gravis ‘heavy, grave’.Definitions on the go
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