Definitions for compliance

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compliance com·pli·ance

Spelling: [kuh m-plahy-uh ns]

IPA: /kəmˈplaɪ əns/

Compliance is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 713 anagrams from letters in compliance (acceilmnop).

Definitions for compliance

noun

1. the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
2. a tendency to yield readily to others, especially in a weak and subservient way.
3. conformity; accordance:
4. cooperation or obedience:
5. Physics. the strain of an elastic body expressed as a function of the force producing the strain. a coefficient expressing the responsiveness of a mechanical system to a periodic force.

Origin of compliance

First recorded in 1635-45; comply + -ance

Examples for compliance

Wright approved one of the wells after the operator agreed to bring it into compliance, according to the letter.

Consider that my happiness, your own, and my son's, depend upon your compliance.

Her father had concluded every thing with Mr. Solmes, not doubting her compliance.

Signify to us, now, therefore, your compliance with our wishes.

She looked with concern and anger upon me—No compliance, I find!

But be sure don't let him see any thing uncheerful in your compliance.

In compliance with the flight plan, the 777 was at 33,000 feet.

However, compliance officials from the Department of Labor failed to appear.

To say that a consignment is “in compliance” with packing regulations is a mere fig leaf.

In 2006, a compliance officer at Mizuho Bank was arrested for selling the data of 1200 bank customers to a yakuza front company.