grievance

  • 41grievance — noun Syn: complaint, objection, grumble, grouse, ill feeling, bad feeling, resentment; informal gripe …

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  • 42grievance — [ˈgriːv(ə)ns] noun [C] a feeling or complaint that you have been treated unfairly …

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  • 43grievance — griev•ance [[t]ˈgri vəns[/t]] n. 1) a wrong considered as grounds for complaint 2) a complaint or resentment, as against an unjust act 3) Obs. the act of inflicting a wrong • Etymology: 1250–1300; < OF …

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  • 44grievance —   n. grounds, real or imaginary, for complaint; feeling of resentment, especially caused by treatment felt to be unfair …

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  • 45grievance — In labor law, a complaint filed by an employee, or by his or her union representative, regarding working conditions and for resolution of which there is procedural machinery provided in the union contract. An injury, injustice or wrong which… …

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  • 46grievance — In labor law, a complaint filed by an employee, or by his or her union representative, regarding working conditions and for resolution of which there is procedural machinery provided in the union contract. An injury, injustice or wrong which… …

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  • 47grievance — A cause for complaint or protest. The crux of an industrial or labor dispute. Anno: 158 ALR 1176; 31 Am J Rev ed Lab § 369 …

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  • 48grievance — n. a real or fancied cause for complaint. Etymology: ME, = injury, f. OF grevance (as GRIEF) …

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  • 49grievance committee — a group of representatives chosen from a labor union or from both labor and management to consider and remedy workers grievances. [1925 30] * * * …

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  • 50grievance committee — griev′ance commit tee n. a group of representatives chosen from a labor union or from both labor and management to consider and remedy workers grievances • Etymology: 1925–30 …

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