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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grievance \Griev"ance\, n. [OF. grevance. See Grieve, v. t.]
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.
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Grieving; grief; affliction.
The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked.
--Milton.Syn: Burden; oppression; hardship; trouble.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "state of being aggrieved," from Old French grevance "harm, injury, misfortune, trouble, suffering," from grever "to harm, to burden" (see grieve). In reference to a cause of such a condition, from late 15c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) Something which causes grief. 2 A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
WordNet
n. a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge, score]
an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice
a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action
Wikipedia
"Grievance" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam. Written by vocalist Eddie Vedder, "Grievance" is the ninth track on the band's sixth studio album, Binaural (2000).
Grievance is a complaint
- Greed versus grievance in political science
- Grievance (labour) law
- Grievances (Rolo Tomassi album)
- Grievance Blues, Lightnin' Hopkins 1960
- Grievances, novel by Mark Ethridge
Grievance is a crime novel by the American writer K.C. Constantine set in 1990s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh).
Detective Sergeant Ruggiero "Rugs" Carlucci, the self-deprecating protégé of recently retired Mario Balzic, is the protagonist.
It tells the story of James Deford Lyon, philanthropist and CEO of one of Pittsburgh's greatest steel companies, who has been gunned down in his mansion by a sniper, and detective "Rugs" Carlucci is quickly besieged by the demands of media figures from Washington and New York and sifting through hundreds of suspects who've been downsized by Lyons. In a second plot, Rugs' mother has a violent outburst that leads her to a mental hospital; Rugs' partner is operating behind his back, hoping to nail the killer and gain a promotion; and his relationship with a one-time Miss Pennsylvania runner-up is coming to a critical crossroad.
It is the sixteenth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.
A grievance is a complaint raised by an employee which may be resolved by procedures provided for in a collective agreement, an employment contract, or by other mechanisms established by an employer. Such a grievance may arise from a violation of a collective bargaining agreement, the terms of a contract, the treatment by others in the workplace, or violations of the law, such as workplace safety regulations. Under UK employment law all employees have a legal right to raise a grievance, and there is a statutory Acas Code of Practice for handling grievances.
Typically, everyone involved with a grievance has strict time lines which must be met in the processing of this formal complaint, until it is resolved. Employers cannot legally treat an employee any differently whether he or she has filed a grievance or not.
A collective grievance is a complaint raised by two or more employees in a unionized workplace. Under some jurisdictions it may also be known as a collective or labor dispute. The difference between a grievance and a complaint, in the unionized workplace, is whether the subject matter relates to the collective bargaining agreement. If the dispute cannot be resolved through discussion and negotiation between labor and management, mediation, arbitration or legal remedies may be employed. Where a collective dispute cannot be resolved it may lead to a strike action.
Usage examples of "grievance".
To prevent such a consummation, in conclusion, he urged the necessity of redressing the grievances, and of adopting some remedy to the deplorable distresses under which the Irish people were groaning.
At last he had given his grievance an airing, and compared with his previous treatment rude letters, curt telephone calls, and ignored requests for information smooth evasions were a decided improvement.
Jefferson Davis, his earnest championship of universal amnesty, and his expressed sympathy with the grievances of the old ruling element of the slave States, had created a kindly impression in that section.
These boons were offset, however, by a new delegation summoning Becket and the king again to arbitrament of their grievances, and setting Ascension Day as the term of papal leniency.
Obviously an atheling should be better mounted than his thegn, although by then he knew enough not to put his grievance in those terms.
Wellington Bunn seemed always to have a grievance because he had not made a success in Shakespeare.
However, John of Salisbury relates that Louis, who had not ceased to cherish the queen with an almost boyish ardor, was surprised, chagrined, and terribly upset by the outpouring of her grievances, and at once took measures to resist her purposes.
I proceeded to explain the grievance of the young dancer, and I read the agreement he had made with her, telling him politely that I could easily force him to fulfil it.
We hear not of any frauds discovered, or of defaulters punished, or of grievances redressed.
The minds of the Americans had been chafed to such a degree by their original grievances, and the measures which had been adopted to enforce their quiescence, that they became every day more and more disaffected toward the English government.
As he reviewed the conversation of the evening, he wondered which were really the more dangerous to the state, Emmet, full of personal grievances and undigested theories, or his opponent, Judge Swigart, the cynical and aristocratic politician.
But the only way of mitigating factiousness and misunderstanding is by means of some machinery of mutual consultation, which may help to remedy grievances and whose decision shall determine the political action taken in the name of the whole community.
Miss Giggs, that the Warden has your grievance in hand, and it and the offender will be dealt with.
It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances.
Merit Service Board and toss a grenade into the civil service grievance system and show you some hardball of my own.