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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɡɹiː.vəns/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-grievance.wav Forms: grievances [plural]
Rhymes: -iːvəns Etymology: From Old French grievance, from the verb grever (“to irritate; to bother; to annoy”) + -ance. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gʷreh₂-}}, {{der|en|fro|grievance}} Old French grievance Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} grievance (countable and uncountable, plural grievances)
  1. (countable) Something which causes grief. Tags: countable Translations (something which causes grief): agrangay (Bikol Central), Ärgernis [neuter] (German), Missstand [masculine] (German), Mißstand [masculine] (German), Übelstand [masculine] (German), Kümmernis [neuter] (German)
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  2. (countable) A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint. Tags: countable Translations (a wrong or hardship suffered): agrangay (Bikol Central), Kränkung [feminine] (German), Missstand [masculine] (German), Mißstand [masculine] (German), Kümmernis [neuter] (German), Kummer [masculine] (German), pāmamaetanga (Maori), mamaetanga (Maori)
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  3. (uncountable) Feelings of being wronged; outrage; resentment, bitterness or anger. Tags: uncountable Translations (feelings of being wronged; outrage): agrangay (Bikol Central), огорчение (ogorčenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), Groll [masculine] (German), Kummer [masculine] (German), Kränkung [feminine] (German), Wut [feminine] (German), Ärger [masculine] (German), harm [common-gender] (Swedish), kränkthet [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  4. (countable) A complaint or annoyance. Tags: countable
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  5. (countable, human resources) A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Human resources Translations (formal complaint): agrangay (Bikol Central), жалба (žalba) [feminine] (Bulgarian), valitus (Finnish), grief [masculine] (French), Beschwerde [feminine] (German), Klage [feminine] (German), παράπονο (parápono) [neuter] (Greek), agravo [masculine] (Portuguese)
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  6. (uncountable) Violation of regulations or objectionable behavior. Tags: uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: grievaunce [archaic] Derived forms: grievance collecting, grievance collection, grievance collector, grievance studies, racial grievance industry Translations (complaint): agrangay (Bikol Central), оплакване (oplakvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), недоволство (nedovolstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), greuge [masculine] (Catalan), 抱怨 (bàoyuàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 委屈 (wěiqū) (Chinese Mandarin), valitus (Finnish), grief [masculine] (French), Beschwerde [feminine] (German), Klage [feminine] (German), Ärgernis [neuter] (German), παράπονο (parápono) [neuter] (Greek), δυσαρέσκεια (dysaréskeia) [feminine] (Greek), querēla [feminine] (Latin), whakamauāhara (Maori), klage (Norwegian), klagemål (Norwegian), Kloag [feminine] (Plautdietsch), queixa [feminine] (Portuguese), reclamação [feminine] (Portuguese), жа́лоба (žáloba) [feminine] (Russian), queja [feminine] (Spanish), agravio [masculine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'complaint': 1 25 0 34 40 0

Noun [Old French]

Forms: grievance oblique singular or [canonical, feminine], grievances [oblique, plural], grievance [nominative, singular], grievances [nominative, plural]
Head templates: {{fro-noun|f}} grievance oblique singular, f (oblique plural grievances, nominative singular grievance, nominative plural grievances)
  1. Alternative form of grevance Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: grevance
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2007, Aderoju Oyefusi, Oil and the Propensity to Armed Struggle in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria:",
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        "(countable) A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
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          "ref": "2005, John Gennard, Graham Judge, Employee Relations, →ISBN, page 303:",
          "text": "The issues of harassment and/or bullying was the top common source of grievance, followed by discipline, and then new working practices.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Aderoju Oyefusi, Oil and the Propensity to Armed Struggle in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria:",
          "text": "Given the non-significance of grievance in the estimated results, I proceeded to check whether the data provide a systematic and rational explanation of personal grievance among the population.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Andrew Anthony, The Fallout: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence, →ISBN, page 21:",
          "text": "The left half of the equation draws on grievance while the liberal half is sustained by guilt, and as such they enjoy a symbiotic relationship: the more grievance the left can generate, the more guilt the liberal will feel, and the more guilt the liberal feels, the more grievance the left are able to generate.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite, Michael Cookson, Anomie and Violence, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Warfare is a condition in which there is more greed and more grievance, more deterrence and more defiance.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Feelings of being wronged; outrage; resentment, bitterness or anger."
      ],
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          "wronged"
        ],
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          "outrage",
          "outrage"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Feelings of being wronged; outrage; resentment, bitterness or anger."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A complaint or annoyance."
      ],
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        [
          "complaint",
          "complaint"
        ],
        [
          "annoyance",
          "annoyance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A complaint or annoyance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Human resources"
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        {
          "text": "If you want the problem fixed, you'll have to file a grievance with the city.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace."
      ],
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        [
          "human resources",
          "human resources"
        ],
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          "formal",
          "formal"
        ],
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          "unionized",
          "unionized"
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        "(countable, human resources) A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace."
      ],
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        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1652, Sir Robert Cotton, Sir John Hayward, The Histories of the Lives and Raignes of Henry the III. and Henry the IIII Kings of England, page 188:",
          "text": "Indeed I do confess, that many times I have showed myself both less provident and less paiful for the benefit of the commonwealth, tha I should, or might, or intended to do hereafter; and have in many actions more respected the satisfying of my own particular humour, than either justice to some private persons, or the common good of all ; yet I did not at any time either omit duty or commit grievance, upon natural dulness or set malice; but partly by abuse of corrupt counsellors, partly by error of my youthful judgement.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Edward I. A.D. 1272-[1307]:",
          "text": "The like, 'de mot en wot,' to the barons, bailiffs, men and entire community of the port of Sanwich and its members with 'conclusion' ordering them, on their faith and loyalty, to cause the truce to be firmly observed in all its points, and forbidding them and each of them, under pain of forfeiture of life and limb and of all that they can forfeit, to commit grievance, damage, wrong or molestation by land or by sea, openly or secretly, upon any merchant or other of whatsoever estate or condition he may be of the realm of France or of the other lands of the king of France.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, South Western Reporter (Second Series), page 71:",
          "text": "Interim work rules, that served as bridge between expired and future contract between city and firefighters' association, did not commit grievance regarding firefighters' entitlement to step wage increases to arbitration.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Violation of regulations or objectionable behavior."
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          "violation"
        ],
        [
          "regulations",
          "regulations"
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          "objectionable",
          "objectionable"
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          "behavior"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Violation of regulations or objectionable behavior."
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        "uncountable"
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      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol Central",
      "sense": "something which causes grief",
      "word": "agrangay"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something which causes grief",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Ärgernis"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something which causes grief",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Missstand"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something which causes grief",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Mißstand"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something which causes grief",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Übelstand"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something which causes grief",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Kümmernis"
    },
    {
      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol Central",
      "sense": "a wrong or hardship suffered",
      "word": "agrangay"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a wrong or hardship suffered",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kränkung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a wrong or hardship suffered",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Missstand"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a wrong or hardship suffered",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Mißstand"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a wrong or hardship suffered",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Kümmernis"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a wrong or hardship suffered",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kummer"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a wrong or hardship suffered",
      "word": "pāmamaetanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a wrong or hardship suffered",
      "word": "mamaetanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol Central",
      "sense": "feelings of being wronged; outrage",
      "word": "agrangay"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ogorčenie",
      "sense": "feelings of being wronged; outrage",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "огорчение"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "feelings of being wronged; outrage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Groll"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "feelings of being wronged; outrage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kummer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "feelings of being wronged; outrage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kränkung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "feelings of being wronged; outrage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Wut"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "feelings of being wronged; outrage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ärger"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "feelings of being wronged; outrage",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "harm"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "feelings of being wronged; outrage",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kränkthet"
    },
    {
      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol Central",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "word": "agrangay"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "oplakvane",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "оплакване"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nedovolstvo",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "недоволство"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "greuge"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bàoyuàn",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "word": "抱怨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wěiqū",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "word": "委屈"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "word": "valitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grief"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Beschwerde"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Klage"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Ärgernis"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "parápono",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "παράπονο"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "dysaréskeia",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "δυσαρέσκεια"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "querēla"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "word": "whakamauāhara"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "word": "klage"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "word": "klagemål"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kloag"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "queixa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "reclamação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "žáloba",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жа́лоба"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "queja"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "complaint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "agravio"
    },
    {
      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol Central",
      "sense": "formal complaint",
      "word": "agrangay"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "žalba",
      "sense": "formal complaint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жалба"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "formal complaint",
      "word": "valitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "formal complaint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grief"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "formal complaint",
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Beschwerde"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Klage"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "parápono",
      "sense": "formal complaint",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "παράπονο"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "formal complaint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "agravo"
    }
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}

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      "form": "grievance oblique singular or",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grievances",
      "tags": [
        "oblique",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grievance",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grievances",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
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      "categories": [
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        "Old French lemmas",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of grevance"
      ],
      "links": [
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      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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