[
UK
/plˈeɪnt/
]
NOUN
- (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed
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a cry of sorrow and grief
their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward
How To Use plaint In A Sentence
- His wife shopped him to me with a bitter complaint about his clothes bill.
- A Scottish moor long bore the reputation for being haunted by a phantom flock of sheep, which were always heard "baaing" plaintively before a big storm. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
- Lateness and carelessness are subjects for complaint.
- Handling complaints well can turn a dissatisfied customer into a loyal one.
- The company has been sitting on my letter for weeks without dealing with my complaint.
- The plaintiff had sued one member, Hunter, of a committee of the management of a hospital which had engaged him.
- A spokesman said: ‘Following a further complaint, visits to the tea room this year established the conditions of the licence had again been broken.’
- The watchdog plans to issue formal regulatory guidance setting out how companies should handle endowment complaints and assess where compensation is due.
- Federal law allows plaintiffs to collect up to $ 100, 000 per infringement.
- Aren't you a spoiled child, without the childness and the spoiling, to go and write in that plaintive, solemn way about 'help of some connexions of Jane's in Glasgow,' as if you were a desolate orphan Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
