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COMPLIANCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compliancy mean?
• COMPLIANCY (noun)
The noun COMPLIANCY has 1 sense:
1. a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
Familiarity information: COMPLIANCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
complaisance; compliance; compliancy; deference; obligingness
Hypernyms ("compliancy" is a kind of...):
agreeability; agreeableness (a temperamental disposition to be agreeable)
Derivation:
compliant (inclined to comply)
comply (act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes)
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