Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Grievance

/ˈɡriːv(ə)ns/

A real or imagined cause for complaint, especially unfair treatment.

A website which enabled staff to air their grievances.

Synonyms: injustice, unjust act, wrong, injury, ill, offence, disservice, unfairness, evil, outrage, atrocity, damage; affront, insult, indignity

Civil disorder could be the result of a real or imagined grievance.

Besides the above political and administrative, economic, social and religious grievances, another major cause was the unrest of the sepoys in the army of the British.

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