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com·pli·ance  (km-plns)
n.
1.
a. The act of complying with a wish, request, or demand; acquiescence.
b. Medicine Willingness to follow a prescribed course of treatment.
2. A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others.
3.
a. Extension or displacement of a loaded structure per unit load.
b. Flexibility.

compliance
Noun
1. complying
2. a tendency to do what others want
compliant adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.compliance - acting according to certain accepted standards; "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"
cooperation - joint operation or action; "their cooperation with us was essential for the success of our mission"
formality - compliance with formal rules; "courtroom formality"
line - acting in conformity; "in line with"; "he got out of line"; "toe the line"
honoring, observance - conformity with law or custom or practice etc.
keeping - conformity or harmony; "his behavior was not in keeping with the occasion"
disobedience, noncompliance - the failure to obey
2.compliance - a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
agreeability, agreeableness - a temperamental disposition to be agreeable
3.compliance - the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
group action - action taken by a group of people
obedience, obeisance - the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
prostration - abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body

compliance
Translations
Spanish compliance [kəmˈplaɪəns] n (= submission) → sumisión f (= agreement); conformidad f;
in compliance with → de acuerdo con

French compliance [kəmˈplaɪəns] n (= submission) → docilité f (= agreement);
compliance with → le fait de se conformer à;
in compliance with → en conformité avec, conformément à

German compliance [kəmˈplaɪəns] nFügsamkeit f;
(agreement) → Einverständnis nt;
compliance with → Einverständnis mit, Zustimmung f zu;
in compliance with → gemäß +dat

Italian compliance [kəmˈplaɪəns] nacquiescenza;
in compliance with [+ orders, wishes etc] → in conformità con

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With reflections of this nature she usually, as has been hinted, accompanied every act of compliance with her brother's inclinations; and surely nothing could more contribute to heighten the merit of this compliance than a declaration that she knew, at the same time, the folly and unreasonableness of those inclinations to which she submitted.
Lady Dorothea is lovely and Engaging; I prefer no woman to her; but know Sir, that I scorn to marry her in compliance with your Wishes.
Elton's best compliments, "that he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath; where, in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends, he had engaged to spend a few weeks, and very much regretted the impossibility he was under, from various circumstances of weather and business, of taking a personal leave of Mr.
 
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