Queja in english
Complain
pronunciation: kəmpleɪn part of speech: verb
pronunciation: kəmpleɪn part of speech: verb
In gestures
queja = complaint ; cry ; discontent ; grievance ; remonstration ; demand ; hand-wringing ; reproach ; axe to grind ; gripe ; whining ; jeremiad ; beef ; plaint ; letter of complaint ; nag ; niggle ; bleat ; whinge [winge].
Example: CACs have dealt with pre-shopping advice, education on consumers' rights and complaints about goods and services, advising the client and often obtaining expert assessments.Example: The cry is often heard that it is impossible to put nonbook materials on open shelves because they will be stolen.Example: No one complained about Duff to her, and she decided not to probe for discontents.Example: So, in the bicentennial spirit here's a three-point bill of particulars or grievances (in addition to what was mentioned previously with respect to offensive or unauthentic terms).Example: Interestingly enough, the immediate effect of Bodley's remonstrations was the inclusion in the inventory lists of additional separate entries for books bound with other books.Example: Demands from clients will often throw up an occurrence of similar problems, revealing perhaps the operation of an injustice, the lack of an amenity in the neighbourhood, or simply bureaucratic inefficiency.Example: The book is simply an occasion for ritual hand-wringing about Northern Ireland's troubled past and present troubles = The book is simply an occasion for ritual hand-wringing about Northern Ireland's troubled past and present troubles.Example: A standing reproach to all librarians is the non-user.Example: The seventeenth century could tolerate the growth of a public library which was committed to the spread of knowledge without any particular axe to grind other than the rather vague one of promoting a happy Christian state.Example: The article 'Interlibrary loan: automation, whither thou goest; some gripes and an accolade' advises postponing automation until dedicated funds are available and hardware is standardized.Example: Electronic, peer review journals provide the clearest examples of the value of the Internet as a medium for serious scholarship, a counterpoint to whinings over digital disinformation and knowledge fragmentation.Example: He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.Example: My major beef about ProCite (and it's actually true of Reference Manager as well) is that the import filters are not updated.Example: A common plaint among some critics is that resemblance is a necessary condition of pictorial representation.Example: In the course of reading this article, you may spot a factual error which makes you bristle, or you may think the writing is biased, but by now the ink has dried; all you can do is send a letter of complaint.Example: The article is entitled 'One last nag or two or three: it's the last chance this year for vendors to take my advice: put users first!'.Example: Wilson was limping around so he must have picked up a knock or aggravated a niggle that he already had.Example: But other than a few bleats in the media, the public has completely ignored this story.Example: His whinges make me fume.more:
» atender a una queja = handle + a complaint ; deal with + a complaint .
Example: Some consumer advice centres would not only handle complaints but also provided pre-shopping advice, combined with attractive exhibitions, leaflets, price-comparison tables, and other consumer education activities. Example: This leaflet gives details of how to make a comment or complaint and how we will deal with complaints.» dar lugar a queja = evoke + a complaint .
Example: So far, the introduction of technology and online cataloging is evoking a lot of complaints from catalogers.» desbaratar las quejas = disarm + complaints .
Example: The belief that health professionals were 'doing everything they could' in conditions of constraint also tended to exonerate them from blame for the suffering that carers or ill people experienced, and thus to disarm complaints about health care.» después de la queja = postcomplaint [post-complaint] [Lista de palabras que comienzan con este prefijo] .
Example: Because this study focuses on users' complaint behavior, not postcomplaint behavior, justice was not included in this study.» expresar + Posesivo + quejas = voice + Posesivo + concerns .
Example: Most clubs kept a complaint book, usually in the front lobby of the club, where members could voice their concerns.» expresar queja = voice + a complaint .
Example: Occasional users did not, as a rule, voice complaints.» interponer una queja = file + a complaint ; file + a grievance .
Example: Mechanisms for appealing decisions and filing complaints and grievances are also critical to the integrity of any accreditation process. Example: Mechanisms for appealing decisions and filing complaints and grievances are also critical to the integrity of any accreditation process.» invalidar las quejas = disarm + complaints .
Example: The belief that health professionals were 'doing everything they could' in conditions of constraint also tended to exonerate them from blame for the suffering that carers or ill people experienced, and thus to disarm complaints about health care.» motivo de queja = pet peeve .
Example: But many people have said that fag ends are merely the tip of the iceberg, with chewing gum and dog muck being some of the top pet peeves.» persona que se queja = complainant .
Example: Each branch was given a poster to display and a supply of forms which complainants could fill in and these were returned by the library to the nearest consumer protection office for action.» posterior a la queja = postcomplaint [post-complaint] [Lista de palabras que comienzan con este prefijo] .
Example: Because this study focuses on users' complaint behavior, not postcomplaint behavior, justice was not included in this study.» presentar una queja = register + a complaint ; file + a complaint ; file + a grievance ; make + a complaint ; enter + a complaint .
Example: Moreover, no one had ever registered a formal complaint. Example: Mechanisms for appealing decisions and filing complaints and grievances are also critical to the integrity of any accreditation process. Example: Mechanisms for appealing decisions and filing complaints and grievances are also critical to the integrity of any accreditation process. Example: This leaflet gives details of how to make a comment or complaint and how we will deal with complaints. Example: What kind of report and evidence is required if persons wish to enter formal complaints or press charges?.» presentar una queja a = lodge + a complaint with .
Example: In the case of gift and exchange documents, a complaint can be lodged with the respective institutions.» quejas = grumbling(s) .
Example: Much grumbling is currently heard among librarians about how they simply can no longer afford such and such indexing and abstracting services because the price is astronomical = Actualmente se oyen muchas quejas entre los bibliotecarios de cómo ya no pueden seguir permitiéndose tal o cual base de datos bibliográfica debido a que su precio es astronómico.» tratar una queja = handle + a complaint ; deal with + a complaint .
Example: Some consumer advice centres would not only handle complaints but also provided pre-shopping advice, combined with attractive exhibitions, leaflets, price-comparison tables, and other consumer education activities. Example: This leaflet gives details of how to make a comment or complaint and how we will deal with complaints.quejarse = complain ; grieve ; grumble ; protest ; remonstrate ; moan ; whinge [winge] ; be (all) up in arms ; voice + a complaint ; whine ; niggle ; carp ; groan ; rail against ; cry + foul ; fuss ; grouch (about) ; whimper ; yammer ; express + discomfort ; express + despair ; bitch ; voice + Posesivo + concerns ; mither.
Example: Then he complained to the reference librarian and said, 'Well, you have one edition under one title and another edition under another title'.Example: If we take Cindi, Albert will almost surely grieve.Example: Staff have continually grumbled about this extra effort.Example: 'He's building himself a small empire,' one protested bitterly.Example: 'I'd love to be able to get them off my back', he remonstrated with a deep sigh.Example: The article 'Don't you weep, don't you moan: a sermon on entrepreneurship for acquisitions librarians' urges librarians to become entrepreneurial, to market their services, and to become visible.Example: The advice is summarized under the headings: be positive; be honest; be exact; and don't whinge.Example: And everyone who reads, writes, sings, does research, or teaches should be up in arms but the real question is why so few people are complaining.Example: Occasional users did not, as a rule, voice complaints.Example: Nothing you can do about that so no use whining.Example: The House of Commons passed the week in niggling without result over a profusion of theoretical issues.Example: You who carped that the 007 films had devolved into a catalog of fresh gadgets and stale puns, eat crow.Example: Young kids like listening to these shaggy dog stories, but don't usually 'get it', while parents generally groan over the punch lines.Example: She has vented her frustration over the nation's over-zealous traffic wardens and railed against the littered streets.Example: Hillary has put her cards on the table and her supporters still do not cry foul.Example: A baby who fusses, cries or displays other colicky symptoms is most likely reacting quite negatively to something that his or her mother is eating.Example: You can choose to grouch about what they don't have OR open your mind up and see what they have to offer.Example: My baby is 2 months old, he spends most of his waking time either whining or whimpering, only occasionally seems content.Example: The righties in this country keep yammering about 'we shouldn't be giving terrorists the same rights Americans enjoy'.Example: If the child continues to express severe discomfort or if the herniated bulge returns to the navel area, contact your physician immediately.Example: In this passage, Macbeth expresses despair at the realization that death is inevitable.Example: Nobody bitched, because there was nothing to bitch about.Example: Most clubs kept a complaint book, usually in the front lobby of the club, where members could voice their concerns.Example: Why not just let it go and have what fun there is to be had here instead of mithering on over something you can't change and is in the past?.more:
» quejarse de = deplore ; bemoan ; bleat (on) about .
Example: We may resent the word 'bibliography' and we may deplore its application to fields which seem not to be truly bibliographical. Example: Rather than bemoan the inevitable loss of the distinctive characteristics of the print era, let us build on the extraordinary strengths of digital information to preserve the best of our heritage. Example: She bleats on about the world not understanding how smart, effective and masterful a politician she is, while proving that she is neither of these things.» quejarse en vano = bay at + the moon ; bark at + the moon ; howl at + the moon .
Example: Let us not bay at the moon in demanding additional resources, but rather let us seek greater freedom in using the resources we have. Example: There was a time when they could actually influence things -- these days they're just barking at the moon hoping they're not in the next layoff. Example: Politicians need to understand that these supply and demand things do in fact work and that economists have not been howling at the moon all these years, it really is just true that price fixing does not work.» sin quejarse = uncomplaining ; uncomplainingly ; without complaining ; without (a word of) complaint ; without question .
Example: His faith was pretty blind and his arrogance, luckily, borne with uncomplaining good humor by his colleagues. Example: The criteria of choice will be heavily influenced -- even if we contribute ourselves, uncomplainingly, to the riches of this project -- by a point of view which is Anglo-Saxon. Example: To complete this challenge, you have to go 21 straight days without complaining, criticizing, or gossiping. Example: From washing dishes, cleaning the house, pruning his family's oak tree, to tutoring his naughty cousin, he did it all without a word of complaint. Example: The nature of science is that one should not accept anything without question and if you are accepting scientific theory without question.