compliance

compliance
    n 1: 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}]
    2: a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
       [syn: {complaisance}, {compliance}, {compliancy},
       {obligingness}, {deference}]
    3: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
       [syn: {submission}, {compliance}]
    

Compliance \Com*pli"ance\, n. [See {Comply}.]
   1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand,
      or proposal; concession; submission.
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            What compliances will remove dissension? --Swift.
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            Ready compliance with the wishes of his people.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   2. A disposition to yield to others; complaisance.
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            A man of few words and of great compliance.
                                                  --Clarendon.

   Syn: Concession; submission; consent; obedience; performance;
        execution; acquiescence; assent.
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153 Moby Thesaurus words for "compliance":
      OK, Quakerism, 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, okay, orthodoxy,
      passive resistance, passiveness, passivity, performance,
      permission, pliability, pliancy, practice, promptitude, promptness,
      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