compliance
compliance Lexical Profile
compliance Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The action or fact of obeying a rule, law, demand, or official standard.
"The company hired an external auditor to ensure strict compliance with environmental regulations."
An excessive willingness or tendency to yield to the wishes of others.
"Critics argued that the committee's passive compliance allowed the flawed proposal to pass without debate."
The property of a material or biological organ of undergoing elastic deformation or change in volume when subjected to an applied force or pressure.
"Pulmonary specialists measured the patient's lung compliance to assess the elasticity of the respiratory tissue."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the mid-17th century from the verb 'comply' and the suffix '-ance', ultimately tracing back via Italian 'complire' and Spanish 'cumplir' to Latin 'complere' ('to fill up' or 'to fulfill').