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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
-
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.
- Federal law allows plaintiffs to collect up to $ 100, 000 per infringement.
- 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.
- The company has been sitting on my letter for weeks without dealing with my complaint.
- 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.
- The TV station has received a barrage of complaints about the amount of violence in the series.
- I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes seem so unnatural (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and an indiscriminate attack on civilians. As I Please
- If he fails to do so, he is held liable, whereas in an action for negligence the legal burden in most cases remains throughout on the plaintiff.
