Lorne Baring: The likelihood is that the Swiss economy will have to be completely recalculated, tourism and exporters will feel this ... and Swiss investors with euro zone and U.S. holdings will feel betrayed by the Swiss National Bank.
grievance noun [C]. âº a âcomplaint or a âstrong âfeeling that you have been âtreated unfairly: A âspecial âcommittee âinvestigates âprisonersâ grievances. (Definition of grievance from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press). See all translations.
Gravamen (from Lat. gravare, to weigh down; gravis, heavy), (plural graÂ·vaÂ·mens or graÂ·vamÂ·iÂ·na), a complaint or grievance, the ground of a legal action, and particularly the more serious part of a charge against an accused person. In legal terms, it is the essential element of a lawsuit. In English the term is used chiefly in legal submissions and judicial opinions. The word is commonly misspelled gravaman. Apart from the normal usage of the word, the gravamen test is used in contract law to distinguish between the sale of goods and services in hybrid transactions. Under the test each component of the sale is isolated and individually determined to be either a good or a service.