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be/go on at someoneidiom
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bemoan
bewail
brouhaha
bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom
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clamour
complain
grizzle
make noisesidiom
mutter
nag
pardon
remonstrate
representation
start on at someone
unreported
vituperation
whiner

grievance | American Dictionary

grievance
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɡri·vəns/
a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly:
A special committee investigates prisoners’ grievances.

grievance | Business English

grievance
noun
uk /ˈɡriːvəns/us
[ C or U ]
a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly:
have/nurse a grievance against sbHe has been nursing a grievance against the company for several years.
[ C ] HR
an official complaint by an employee that they have been treated unfairly:
file/raise a grievanceAn employee may file a grievance against a manager in accordance with the provisions set forth in their contract.
The aim of a grievance procedure is to encourage fairness in the handling of workplace problems.

Examples of grievance

grievance
Their employees could always approach them with their grievances and expect to have them treated with fairness and justice.
The women challenge usually begins by the articulation of concerns, fears, grievances and interests.
But it also protested against a resilient employer that failed to respond to long-standing grievances and loss of dignity.
This is not to say that venues for employee grievances and hearing complaints about harassment do not exist.
Plausible arguments for deploying the criminal law against such behavior can be made from grievance morality.
This suggests a more fundamental problem facing the grievance arguments, however they are elaborated.
The grievances, anger, frustration and disillusionment that emerged led to an upsurge in agitation and protests.
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).
The establishment of these new courts altered the landscapes of power by providing new opportunities for disputants to seek resolution of their grievances.
Scholars now suggest that this violence was managed, often emerging as a means of settling grievances between planters and older inhabitants.
In these the king, though guilty of undoubted irregularities, had shown himself willing to redress legitimate grievances.
Each managed to address and articulate the citizens' peculiar grievances with differing degrees of success.
They deride their attempts to manipulate workers' grievances for political ends.
The wrong done to the victim clearly funds a grievance on her part.
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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Collocations withgrievance

grievance

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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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