2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Compliance \Com*pli"ance\, n. [See {Comply}.]
1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand,
or proposal; concession; submission.
What compliances will remove dissension? --Swift.
Ready compliance with the wishes of his people.
--Macaulay.
2. A disposition to yield to others complaisance.
A man of few words and of great compliance.
--Clarendon.
Syn: Concession; submission; consent; obedience; performance;
execution; acquiescence; assent.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
compliance
n 1: acting according to certain accepted standards [syn: {conformity},
{conformation}, {abidance}] [ant: {disobedience}, {nonconformity}]
2: happy friendly agreement
3: a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
[syn: {complaisance}, {compliancy}, {obligingness}, {deference}]
4: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
[syn: {submission}]
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