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I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.
Justin Sane

Meaning of "grievance" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GRIEVANCE

Grevance, from Old French, from grever to grieve1.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GRIEVANCE

grievance  [ˈɡriːvəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRIEVANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Grievance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRIEVANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Grievance

In general, grievance is a wrong or hardship suffered, whether real or supposed, which forms legitimate grounds of complaint. In the past, the word meant oppressive state of things.

Definition of grievance in the English dictionary

The first definition of grievance in the dictionary is a real or imaginary wrong causing resentment and regarded as grounds for complaint. Other definition of grievance is a feeling of resentment or injustice at having been unfairly treated. Grievance is also affliction or hardship.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRIEVANCE


approvance
əˈpruːvəns
arrivance
əˈraɪvəns
captivance
ˈkæptɪvəns
connivance
kəˈnaɪvəns
connivence
kəˈnaɪvəns
contrivance
kənˈtraɪvəns
crivens
ˈkrɪvəns
inobservance
ˌɪnəbˈzɜːvəns
irrelevance
ɪˈrelɪvəns
misobservance
ˌmɪsəbˈzɜːvəns
nonobservance
ˌnɒnəbˈzɜːvəns
observance
əbˈzɜːvəns
relevance
ˈrɛləvəns
survivance
səˈvaɪvəns
unobservance
ˌʌnəbˈzɜːvəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRIEVANCE

gridlock
gridlocked
grief
grief player
grief-stricken
griefer
griefful
griefless
Grieg
Grierson
grievance procedure
grievant
grieve
griever
grieving
grievingly
grievous
grievous bodily harm
grievously
grievousness

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRIEVANCE

advance
angle of advance
assistance
balance
calavance
cash advance
chance
compliance
dance
disadvance
distance
enhance
finance
France
imbalance
importance
in advance
paper advance
readvance
Sunday observance

Synonyms and antonyms of grievance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GRIEVANCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «grievance» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of grievance

Translation of «grievance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRIEVANCE

Find out the translation of grievance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of grievance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «grievance» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

委屈
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

motivo de queja
570 millions of speakers

English

grievance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शिकायत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التظلم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

жалоба
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

motivo de queixa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নালিশের কারণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

grief
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keluhan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Beschwerde
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不平
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불만
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Grievance
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khiếu nại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குறைகளை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तक्रार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şikâyet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

motivo di risentimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skarg
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

скарга
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plângere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παράπονο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

grief
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

missnöje
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

klagemål
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of grievance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRIEVANCE»

The term «grievance» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.571 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRIEVANCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «grievance» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «grievance» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about grievance

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8 QUOTES WITH «GRIEVANCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word grievance.
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Kenneth Clarke
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
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William J. Clinton
Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
3
Richard Engel
Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons.
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Brendan I. Koerner
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
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Rick Perlstein
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.
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Sean Quinn
If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that.
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Justin Sane
I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.
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Alice Walker
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRIEVANCE»

Discover the use of grievance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to grievance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Greed & Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars
Økonomiske motiver, der ansporer til at starte borgerkrige, har ikke tidligere været genstand for undersøgelser. I bogen har en række eksperter undersøgt dette.
Mats R. Berdal, David Malone, 2000
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The Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Beyond Greed and ...
Globalization, suggest the authors of this collection, is creating new opportunities - some legal, some illicit - for armed factions to pursue their agendas in civil war.
Karen Ballentine, Jake Sherman, 2003
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Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics
The relationship between ethnicity and nationalism in the republics of the Russian Federation.
Elise Giuliano, 2011
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Grievance Arbitration: Issues on the Merits in Discipline, ...
11. Through. the. Grievance. Procedure. to. Arbitration. The previous chapters have examined the various substantive issues confronted by unions and management during the life of their collective bargaining agreements. For each of the ...
Arnold Zack, 1989
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Why are Expectations of Grievance Resolution Systems Not ...
The primary aim of this research is to gain a fresh understanding of why expectations of organisational grievance resolution systems are often not met in order to assist organisations to design and implement processes that meet the ...
Penelope Janet Webster, 2010
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Governance & Grievance: Habsburg Policy and Italian Tyrol in ...
Governance and Grievance touches on various aspects of Habsburg domestic policy, focusing on how the rulers influenced and were influenced by developments in both Italian and German Tyrol, and how they used to advantage the competing ...
Miriam J. Levy, 1988
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Grievances
As he struggles with his journalistic legacy, Harper comes to understand why the investigation must be pursued and why he must be the one to do it-despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces who do not ...
Mark Ethridge, 2011
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Grievance Procedures
C. Other Limitations. The Grievance Committee may not receive complaints of alleged grievances which have occurred earlier than twelve (12) months from the date of receipt of written notice of complaint from the grievant; or, any complaints  ...
‎1975
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Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy: A-J
Lisa B. Bingham Tina Nabatchi Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. INTRODUCTION This chapter describes the basics of the grievance procedure. It provides a discussion of several theoretical perspectives used in grievance ...
Jack Rabin, 2003
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Medieval petitions: grace and grievance
An innovative study of the mechanics, politics and culture of petitioning in the middle ages.
W. M. Ormrod, Gwilym Dodd, Anthony Musson, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRIEVANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term grievance is used in the context of the following news items.
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Denson files grievance in Choctaw election
Five days after incumbent tribal chief Phyliss J. Anderson was declared the winner of a June 30 run-off election to remain chief of the ... «SunHerald.com, Jul 15»
2
PDS grievance redress meet
Special meetings to redress grievance relating to Public Distribution System will be held at the following places in the district on Saturday: ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
3
Labour arbitrator agrees to hear harassment-retaliation grievance
Although a temporary employee had no termination protection under the collective agreement, he did have the right to advance a reprisal ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
4
Email to police prompts grievance, city manager statement
San Antonio city manager Sheryl Sculley speaks to the media Thursday morning June 25, 2015 during a break in an all-day budget planning ... «mySanAntonio.com, Jul 15»
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SC forms five-judge panel to address SCBA`s grievance
The grievance committee, formed by Chief Justice of India H L Dattu, comprises Justices Anil R Dave, J S Khehar, Dipak Misra, R F Nariman ... «Zee News, Jul 15»
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Third Lawyer Objects to Grievance Dismissals
Arlington lawyer Mayur Amin is on a letter-writing campaign because he claims that he filed a grievance against another lawyer, but the State ... «Texas Lawyer, Jul 15»
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Jacksonville school officials remain silent on employee grievance
Jacksonville's school board on May 12 spent more than four hours discussing an employee grievance behind the closed doors of an executive ... «Anniston Star, Jul 15»
8
Urbandale club wins affiliation in grievance vs. Iowa Soccer
The United States Soccer Federation released a decision Monday night from the formal grievance J-Hawk Soccer Club v. Iowa Soccer ... «DesMoinesRegister.com, Jul 15»
9
Personnel committee hears grievance hearing of fired Washington …
We are waiting to learn if a former Washington County Administrator is going to get her job back. Her lawyer says she was fired for defending ... «4029tv, Jul 15»
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Michelle Malkin: Vigilance Is Patriotic, Muslim Grievance Grifters Be …
Michelle Malkin: Vigilance Is Patriotic, Muslim Grievance Grifters Be Damned. By Michelle Malkin | @michellemalkin | Published on 07.05.2015 ... «Noozhawk, Jul 15»

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