GRIEVANCE meaning: Formal complaint due to dissatisfaction

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word grievance:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

grievance: Merriam-Webster
grievance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
grievance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
grievance: Collins English Dictionary
grievance: Vocabulary.com
Grievance, grievance: Wordnik
grievance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
grievance: Wiktionary
grievance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
grievance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
grievance: Infoplease Dictionary
grievance: Dictionary.com
grievance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Grievance (labour), Grievance (song), Grievance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Grievance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
griev'ance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
grievance: Rhymezone
grievance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
grievance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
grievance: FreeDictionary.org
grievance: Mnemonic Dictionary
grievance: TheFreeDictionary.com
grievance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)

grievance: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
grievance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Medicare Glossary (No longer online)
grievance: Legal dictionary
Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
Glossary of Labor Relations Terms (No longer online)
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

grievance: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

grievance: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

grievance: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (countable) Something which causes grief.
▸ noun:  (countable) A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Feelings of being wronged; outrage; resentment, bitterness or anger.
▸ noun:  (countable) A complaint or annoyance.
▸ noun:  (countable, human resources) A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Violation of regulations or objectionable behavior.

Similar:

grudge, score, grievaunce, grievand, grievor, grudgement, gird, grouchies, gripe, grieve, more...

Opposite:

relief, ease, comfort, calm

Types:

complaint, objection, dispute, beef, beefing, disagreement, misunderstanding, more...

Phrases:

grievance procedure, grievance committee, grievance arbitration, Grievance studies affair, Grievance redressal, more...

Adjectives:

real, personal, great, legitimate, serious, old, particular, main, major, chief, common

Colors:

dark gray, black, deep red, maroon, charcoal, more...