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单词 grievance
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grievance

noun
/ˈɡriːvəns/
/ˈɡriːvəns/
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  1. 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
    verb + grievance
    • harbour/​harbor
    • have
    • nurse
    grievance + noun
    • procedure
    • process
    • committee
    preposition
    • grievance about
    • grievance over
    • grievance against
    phrases
    • a sense of grievance
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    Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘injury’): from Old French grevance, from grever ‘to burden’, based on Latin gravare, from gravis ‘heavy, grave’.
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