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grievance definition

griev·ance (grēv′əns)

noun

  1. a circumstance thought to be unjust or injurious and ground for complaint or resentment
  2. complaint or resentment, or a statement expressing this, against a real or imagined wrong
  3. a complaint arising from circumstances or conditions relating to one's employment
  4. Obsolete
    1. the inflicting of injury or hardship
    2. a cause of injury or hardship

Etymology: ME grevaunce < OFr grevance < grever: see grieve

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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