complaints
kuhm-PLAYNTS/kəmˈpleɪnts/
- 1Plural of complaint.
The committee reviewed hundreds of complaints before issuing new guidelines.
Residents filed formal complaints about the noise from the construction site.
Note
A regular plural that takes every countable use of the singular with it. Complaints can be grievances raised with a committee, the formal pleadings or charges filed in civil and criminal courts, or bodily disorders and their symptoms. Only the uncountable sense, the bare act of complaining, resists the plural. In a phrase like no cause for complaint, the singular is the idiomatic choice.
complaints is a form of complaint
complaint, noun: A grievance, problem, difficulty, or matter of concern about something. Full entry
- Forms
- complaintcomplaints plural
- Spelling
- complaint → complaints: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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