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gravamen

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The plural of "gravamen" is "gravamina" or "gravamens."
gravamen(
gruh
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vey
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mihn
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A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
noun
a. el fundamento principal de la acusación
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(M)
While Dean is suspected of many other crimes, the gravamen against him is tax fraud.Aunque se sospecha que Dean cometió muchos crímenes más, el fundamento principal de la acusación es el fraude fiscal.
b. el grueso
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(M)
The lawsuit focuses on racial discrimination as the gravamen of the worker's claim against the company.La demanda se enfoca en la discriminación racial que es el grueso de la queja del empleado contra la empresa.
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