Common Sense of "Grieve" Not in OED

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Jul 12 15:54:45 UTC 2011


I notice that a common sense of the verb "grieve" is not in OED, namely to file a formal grievance, as in "She is going to grieve her being turned down for that job."

Fred Shapiro

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