compliance
- noun
- /kəmˈplaɪəns/
- The company is committed to ensuring full compliance with environmental regulations.
- compliance with regulations
- regulatory compliance
- compliance with the law
Peaceful non compliance will be our only way forward.
- Peaceful non compliance will be our only way forward.
- And when I first started, compliance was a fraction of the cost.
- How do you get a voluntary compliance rather than intimidation?
- Regulatory schemes are are really hard to assure compliance with in in biology.
- And if a trans student sued that school district tomorrow for non compliance, they'd win.
- Contrast that with the case where I threaten you with penalties for non compliance with my with my will.
- Doesn't that violate a law of nature or go down at least as non compliance with some federal regulation?
- But he just does compliance FTC stuff.
- It increases compliance because people want better brains.
Examples
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We made you a deal to which we expected compliance.
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You have two minutes to confirm your compliance.
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So you need a little bit of compliance there, right?
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Quote, we are in full compliance with that policy.
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The security of this nation depends on complete and total compliance.
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In most cases, the rule requires compliance even if no permit is issued.
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We will be monitoring you regularly to make sure you are in compliance.
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Your compliance is mandatory and appreciated.
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What can be done to improve compliance by patients who require long-term therapy?
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The team determined that the primary target behavior would be to increase compliance with teacher-issued commands.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
Willing to do what a person in charge asks
Accepting another person's control by obeying them
Following rules or beliefs closely
A state of behaving and thinking like most people or like rules say
Following a law or custom
A state of following a rule or standard
A habit of doing what other people want even if you disagree
Following rules or laws
The quality of always following rules set by others
A person's willingness to follow rules and fit into a group
Antonyms
Compounds
- Jargon
A stoppage of work by workers to make managers follow safety and other workplace rules
How Compliant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word compliance comes from the verb comply, which goes back to the Latin complēre meaning 'to fill' and shares the same root as complete. So, to comply with a request is like 'filling' or doing what is asked, and compliance means obeying rules or doing what is required.