disgruntled employee

collocation in English

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disgruntled
adjective
uk
/dɪsˈɡrʌn.təld/us
/dɪsˈɡrʌn.t̬əld/
unhappy, annoyed, and disappointed ...
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employee
noun[C]
uk
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.iː/us
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.iː/
someone who is paid to work for ...
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(Definition ofdisgruntledandemployeefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It seems to be fairly fertile ground for adisgruntledemployeewho does not get promotion.
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Perhaps one may imagine adisgruntledemployeewho threatens to contaminate a product of his former employer.
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Neither do they want to face a prosecution as the result of adisgruntledemployeedisobeying the rules and making a false statement deliberately to cause trouble.
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But where is the equality when adisgruntledemployeecan launch a claim, however ill-conceived, against an employer who is faced with the cost of fighting it?
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What stops adisgruntledemployeefrom messaging some sensitive company data to a colleague outside the enterprise?
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The films plot revolves around adisgruntledemployeewho sets fire to an oil refinery, setting off a blaze which engulfs an entire city.
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Adisgruntledemployeehas scattered the takings all over the fairground in the form of money bags.
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Not only was there fear that adisgruntledemployeewould sabotage the oilfields, but also that any further disruptions to the industry would hinder future war efforts.
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Fortier responded that the firing was unjustly severe and that it had been based on a complaint from adisgruntledemployee.
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The reverse of that would be the exampledisgruntledemployeedownloading some virus or spyware onto his machine inside the corporate firewall to release as desired.
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This makes for an efficient economy, but it also makes for some disgruntled employees in the companies working within it.
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If they have children, they are reluctant to take them away from school, and they become disgruntled employees if they cannot have their holidays in this particular period.
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Fired or disgruntled employees sometimes sabotage their company's computer system as a form of pay back.
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There is some speculation that the fires were set by disgruntled employees who were angered at having been dismissed for legitimate reasons.
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However due to some disgruntled employees he was accused of mismanagement and left the company.
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The fire was set by three disgruntled employees of the hotel who were in the middle of a labor dispute with the owners of the hotel.
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