Dictionary Definition
compliance
Noun
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪəns
Noun
- The act of complying.
- The state of being compliant.
- The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
- A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
- The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
- the department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with
Translations
The act of complying
- Finnish: noudattaminen
The state of being compliant
- Swedish: tillmötesgående
The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to
the wishes of others.
A measure of the extension or displacement of a
loaded structure; its flexibility
medical: The accuracy with which a patient
follows an agreed treatment plan
business: the department of a business that
ensures all government regulations are complied with
- Japanese: 法令遵守
Extensive Definition
Compliance can mean:
- In mechanical science, the reciprocal of stiffness
- Compliance (medicine), a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment
- Compliance (physiology), a physical measure in physiology
- Compliance (regulation), the act adhering to, and demonstrating adherance to, a standard or regulation....
- Compliance (Psychology)
compliance in German: Compliance
compliance in French: Compliance
compliance in Italian: Acquiescenza
(disambigua)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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