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单词 grievance
释义
grievance
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˈɡriː.vəns/us
/ˈɡriː.vəns/
acomplaintor astrongfeelingthat you have beentreatedunfairly:
不平，委屈；不满，抱怨，牢骚
Aspecialcommitteehas beenappointedtohandleprisoners' grievances.已经指派一个特别委员会去处理犯人的不满情绪。
Billstillharbours/nursesa grievanceagainsthisemployersfor notpromotinghim.因为没有得到提升，比尔对他的雇主仍然心怀不满。
Thesmallamountofcompensationis asourceof grievance to thepeopleforcedtoleavetheirhomes.被迫离开家园的人们仅获得很少的补偿，这成为激起他们不满的一个诱因。
Synonym
grudge
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Complaining
  • be/go on atsomeoneidiom
  • bellyaching
  • bewail
  • brouhaha
  • bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom
  • complain
  • complaining
  • create/kick up/raise a stinkidiom
  • gnashing of teethidiom
  • grouch
  • lodge
  • mutter
  • nark
  • raise a rumpusidiom
  • rumpus
  • squawk
  • start on atsomeone
  • vituperation
  • whinging
  • whiny
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(Definition ofgrievancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

grievance| American Dictionary

grievance
noun[C]
us
/ˈɡri·vəns/
acomplaintor astrongfeelingthat you have beentreatedunfairly:
Aspecialcommitteeinvestigatesprisoners’ grievances.
(Definition ofgrievancefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

grievance| Business English

grievance
noun
uk
/ˈɡriːvəns/us
[CorU]
acomplaintor astrongfeelingthat you have beentreatedunfairly:
have/nurse a grievance against sbHe has beennursinga grievance against thecompanyfor severalyears.
[C]HR
anofficialcomplaintby anemployeethat they have beentreatedunfairly:
file/raise a grievanceAnemployeemayfileagrievance againstamanagerinaccordancewith theprovisionssetforthintheircontract.
Theaimof agrievanceprocedureis toencouragefairnessin thehandlingofworkplaceproblems.
(Definition ofgrievancefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrievance

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Their employees could always approach them with their grievances and expect to have them treated with fairness and justice.
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The women challenge usually begins by the articulation of concerns, fears, grievances and interests.
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But it also protested against a resilient employer that failed to respond to long-standing grievances and loss of dignity.
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This is not to say that venues for employee grievances and hearing complaints about harassment do not exist.
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Plausible arguments for deploying the criminal law against such behavior can be made fromgrievancemorality.
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This suggests a more fundamental problem facing thegrievancearguments, however they are elaborated.
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The grievances, anger, frustration and disillusionment that emerged led to an upsurge in agitation and protests.
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It may also require the government to correct its practices or policies or discipline state agents deemed responsible for the grievances or resistance (political costs).
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The establishment of these new courts altered the landscapes of power by providing new opportunities for disputants to seek resolution of their grievances.
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Scholars now suggest that this violence was managed, often emerging as a means of settling grievances between planters and older inhabitants.
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In these the king, though guilty of undoubted irregularities, had shown himself willing to redress legitimate grievances.
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Each managed to address and articulate the citizens' peculiar grievances with differing degrees of success.
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They deride their attempts to manipulate workers' grievances for political ends.
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The wrong done to the victim clearly funds agrievanceon her part.
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The role of religion in shaping and breaking alliances among workers themselves on work place grievances changed in accordance with changing political circumstances.
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Collocationswithgrievance

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genuine grievance
There is no doubt that administrative problems have caused genuine grievance and aggravated the concerns of many people.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
legitimate grievance
Both claimed alegitimategrievanceagainst those who stood in the way of a thorough-going conversion and justified violence in terms of divinely sanctioned retribution.
From theCambridge English Corpus
local grievance
I prefer not to mention them, but it is alocalgrievancewhich can be met by a local remedy.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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