Usually means: Essential basis or grievance of complaint.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. gravamen: Merriam-Webster
  2. gravamen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gravamen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gravamen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gravamen: Wordnik
  6. gravamen: Wiktionary
  7. gravamen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. gravamen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. gravamen: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. gravamen: Dictionary.com
  11. gravamen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Gravamen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Gravamen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. gravamen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Gravamen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. gravamen: FreeDictionary.org
  17. gravamen: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. gravamen: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. gravamen: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. gravamen: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. gravamen: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. gravamen: Legal dictionary

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  1. gravamen: A Word A Day

(Note: See gravamens as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gravamen)

noun:  A grievance complained of.
noun:  (Anglicanism) A document sent by the Lower House of Convocation to the Upper House to inform the latter of certain grievances in the church.
noun:  The essence or ground of a complaint.
noun:  (by extension) The essence or most important aspect of a piece of writing, a point of argument, etc.; the gist.
noun:  (obsolete) A formal charge or complaint.

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