'Compliance' definitions:
Definition of 'compliance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Acting according to certain accepted standards; "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices" [syn: conformity, conformation, compliance, abidance] [ant: disobedience, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity]
noun
A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others [syn: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness, deference]
noun
The act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another [syn: submission, compliance]
Definition of 'Compliance'
From: GCIDE
- Compliance \Com*pli"ance\, n. [See Comply.]
- 1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission. [1913 Webster]
- What compliances will remove dissension? --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A disposition to yield to others; complaisance. [1913 Webster]
- A man of few words and of great compliance. --Clarendon.
- Syn: Concession; submission; consent; obedience; performance; execution; acquiescence; assent. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'compliance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acceptance,
- accession,
- accommodatingness,
- accommodation,
- accord,
- accordance,
- acquiescence,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- adaptation,
- adaption,
- adherence,
- adjustment,
- affability,
- affirmation,
- affirmative,
- affirmative voice,
- agreeability,
- agreeableness,
- agreement,
- agreement in principle,
- alacrity,
- allegiance,
- amenability,
- amiability,
- approbation,
- approval,
- ardor,
- assent,
- assentation,
- aye,
- benevolence,
- benignity,
- blessing,
- care,
- carrying out,
- cheerful consent,
- complaisance,
- concurrence,
- conformance,
- conformation other-direction,
- conformity,
- congruity,
- connivance,
- consent,
- consistency,
- conventionality,
- cooperativeness,
- correspondence,
- decency,
- deference,
- discharge,
- docility,
- duteousness,
- dutifulness,
- eagerness,
- endorsement,
- enthusiasm,
- execution,
- faith,
- favorable disposition,
- favorableness,
- fealty,
- flexibility,
- forwardness,
- fulfillment,
- gameness,
- general agreement,
- generousness,
- goodwill,
- graciosity,
- graciousness,
- harmony,
- hearty assent,
- heed,
- heeding,
- homage,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- keeping,
- kindliness,
- kindness,
- kneeling,
- line,
- loyalty,
- malleability,
- meekness,
- nonopposal,
- nonopposition,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolent resistance,
- obedience,
- obediency,
- obeisance,
- obligingness,
- observance,
- observation,
- OK,
- okay,
- orthodoxy,
- passive resistance,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- performance,
- permission,
- pliability,
- pliancy,
- practice,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- Quakerism,
- quietism,
- ratification,
- readiness,
- receptive mood,
- receptiveness,
- receptivity,
- reconcilement,
- reconciliation,
- resignation,
- resignedness,
- respect,
- responsiveness,
- right mood,
- sanction,
- satisfaction,
- service,
- servility,
- servitium,
- strictness,
- subjection,
- submission,
- submissiveness,
- submittal,
- suit and service,
- suit service,
- supineness,
- support,
- tractability,
- traditionalism,
- uncomplainingness,
- ungrudgingness,
- uniformity,
- unloathness,
- unreluctance,
- warm assent,
- welcome,
- willing ear,
- willing heart,
- willingness,
- yielding,
- zeal,
- zealousness