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Grievance - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Grievance : (noun)
1: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding
a grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge, score]
2: an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation
or denies some legal right or causes injustice
3: a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes
resentment and is grounds for action
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Grievance : \Griev"ance\, n. [OF. grevance. See Grieve, v. t.]
1. A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and
suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or
resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.;
injury.
2. Grieving; grief; affliction.
The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked.
--Milton.
Syn: Burden; oppression; hardship; trouble.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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