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compliance definition

com·pli·ance (kəm plī′əns)

noun

  1. a complying with or giving in to a request, wish, or demand; acquiescence
  2. a tendency to give in readily to others
Also compliancy com·pli′·ancy
compliance Idioms

in compliance with

in accordance with

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compliance Synonyms

compliance

n.

yielding, acquiescence, assent; see agreement 1, docility.


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compliance Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • ensure: To ensure compliance with the criteria, certain audit checks were built into the scheme.

Adjective modifier

  • regulatory: Made pursuant to in media players have never apologized in regulatory compliance.

Preposition: with

  • regulation: Advising you on compliance with the various safety regulations.

Modifies a noun

  • audits: And had lower McClaren and Associates according to the easy to list internal compliance audits.
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compliance quotes

   All I wanted was compliance with my wishes after reasonable discussion.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, bya timely compliance, prevented him.

-Fielding, Henry

The nation suspects that the regular ministerial majorities in Parliament are bought, and that the Crown hasmadea purchase oftheHousewiththemoneyofthe people. Hence the ready, tame and servile compliance to every royal verdict issued by Lord North† It is almost universally believed that this debt has been contracted in corrupting the representatives of the people.

-Whitbread, Samuel

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