legitimate grievance

collocation in English

meaningsoflegitimateandgrievance

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legitimate
adjective
uk
/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/us
/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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grievance
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɡriː.vəns/us
/ˈɡriː.vəns/
a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been ...
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(Definition oflegitimateandgrievancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegitimate grievance

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My constituents have alegitimategrievance, and it must be addressed tonight.
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People caught in this way have alegitimategrievanceagainst the tax regulations in this sense.
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The system would then be clogged, making it impossible for those with alegitimategrievanceto have their case heard promptly.
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I think all of us feel that one of the most important things is that nobody should have alegitimategrievance.
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I realise that there is a war on and that things are difficult in regard to borrowing, but this is alegitimategrievance.
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Both claimed alegitimategrievanceagainst those who stood in the way of a thorough-going conversion and justified violence in terms of divinely sanctioned retribution.
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Those absent parent groups who campaigned so loudly against the child support scheme can no longer claimlegitimategrievance.
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Does this term as it is used at present prevent a person who has alegitimategrievanceagainst that diplomatic agent from taking proceedings?
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No attempt has been made to meet this real andlegitimategrievancefelt by tens of thousands of work people.
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The attainment of contentment, or if contentment be too strong a word, the absence of alegitimategrievance, is a big step towards efficiency.
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We hope also to get rid of somelegitimategrievancewhich exists with regard to ready-made clothing.
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The prison officers, having a perfectlylegitimategrievance, are now taking the law into their own hands.
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It has not been disputed that there is alegitimategrievancewith regard to the education system.
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Those are right and proper and there is no room forlegitimategrievanceabout that.
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If they find that prices do not tend to improve after the reorganisation, they will have a verylegitimategrievance.
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If there is no advice, the disabled person will not know whether he has alegitimategrievanceand the conciliation will be unused.
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I suggest that that is a cause forlegitimategrievance.
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I think that is a verylegitimategrievance.
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The old age pensioner and anybody with a very limited fixed income would have thelegitimategrievancethat they have been deceived.
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It seems clear that they have alegitimategrievance.
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