grievance

{{Short description|Wrong or hardship suffered, real or imagined, causing grounds for complaint}}

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A grievance ({{ety|la|gravis|heavy}}) is a wrong or hardship suffered, real or supposed, which forms legitimate grounds of complaint. In the past, the word meant the infliction or cause of hardship.{{cite web|url=//www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/grievance|access-date=21 January 2019|title=Definition of 'grievance'|website=Collins English Dictionary}}