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complaint

/kuhm-pleynt/US // kəmˈpleɪnt //UK // (kəmˈpleɪnt) //

投诉,抱怨,申诉,控诉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
    • : a cause of discontent, pain, grief, lamentation, etc.
    • : a cause of bodily pain or ailment; malady: The doctor says I suffer from a rare complaint.
    • : Law. the first pleading of the plaintiff in a civil action, stating the cause of action.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounstatement of disagreement, discontent
Forms: complaints

Examples

  • The House Committee on Homeland Security is investigating the allegations in the complaint, and more than 170 members of Congress have called for a separate investigation from the Homeland Security inspector general’s office.

  • While the system will formally track such complaints, the allegations against Hankison were already known — and didn’t bar him from staying on the job.

  • The complaints came from a group of businesses in Western Pennsylvania, Republican state legislators and four counties.

  • Sharon Whitehurst-Payne, the school board member who represents the area, got involved in the issue when complaints bounced around public forums.

  • The Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-LGBTQ legal group, filed a complaint with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights on their behalf.

  • Chan ordered the man to put it down and the ensuing criminal complaint would say that he complied.

  • “Defendant moved his hands in a manner so as to avoid the application of handcuffs to his wrists,” the complaint says.

  • The complaint continues, “During this period of time, defendant escaped police custody.”

  • The dress bizarrely burdened Hurley with a ready-made character to play up to, which she did without overt complaint.

  • In January 2013, the TRN group filed a second complaint in the Dial Global suit, demanding a jury trial.

  • It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

  • I have erected above 100 steam-engines on this principle, but never met with one accident or complaint against them.

  • A noted miser boasted that he had lost five shillings without uttering a single complaint.

  • Ive heerd that complaint of it once or twice before, replied the trader; but it soon cools down again; dont you find it so?

  • Other writers suffered from that complaint known as "swelled head," but Walter Fetherston never.