compliance
compliances
Compliance is what you do when you try to fit standards set down by someone else. A restaurant chef's compliance with a new sugar-free menu might inspire even the pastry chefs to follow the recipes.
Plywood helps illustrate the "pli" in compliance, because if you've ever stepped on a piece of plywood stretched across something, you've felt how it gives underneath your feet. It has flexibility. Compliance means being flexible or yielding and giving in to a situation or order. "Pliant" is part of the word compliance, and it means yielding. Agreeing or bending to something like a plan, rule, or direction is compliance.
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the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
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synonyms:
submission
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types:
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obedience, obeisance
the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
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prostration
abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body
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truckling
the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons)
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type of:
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group action
action taken by a group of people
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obedience, obeisance
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a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
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synonyms:
complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness
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type of:
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agreeability, agreeableness
a temperamental disposition to be agreeable
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agreeability, agreeableness
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acting according to certain accepted standards
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synonyms:
abidance, conformation, conformity
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Antonyms:
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disobedience, noncompliance
the failure to obey
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nonconformance, nonconformity
failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior
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formality
compliance with formal rules
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line
acting in conformity
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honoring, observance
conformity with law or custom or practice etc.
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keeping
conformity or harmony
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punctilio
strict observance of formalities
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type of:
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cooperation
joint operation or action
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disobedience, noncompliance
Vocabulary lists containing compliance
After Earth is destroyed by a comet, twelve-year-old Petra Peña wakes up on a new planet and discovers she is the only one who remembers Earth. She must use her stories and her wits to save humanity's legacy.
After learning that her blood is gold instead of red, sixteen-year-old Deka is forced to fight for the emperor of Otera by joining the alaki — an army of nearly immortal girls with golden blood and superhuman gifts.
The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776 by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, with a preamble by John Adams and editing by Benjamin Franklin and other members of Congress, it outlines the offenses of King George III to justify the vote for independence that had taken place two days earlier. With the colonies already one year into a war, the Declaration closed the door on reconciliation with Great Britain and paved the way for the creation of the United States of America. Read the full text here.
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