~ (against sb) something that you think is unfair and that you complain or protest about:
Parents were invited to air their grievances (= express them) at the meeting. * He had been nursing a grievance against his boss for months. * Does the company have a formal grievance procedure (= a way of telling sb your complaints at work)? * These interviews aim to deal with individual grievances.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is grievance a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, grievance is tagged as noun.
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