complaint   (Sound)

The noun complaint has 5 senses

• ailment, complaint, ill -- (an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining)


• complaint -- ((formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow)


• complaint -- (an expression of grievance or resentment)


• complaint -- ((civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based)


• charge, complaint -- ((criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny")