COMPLIANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compliance mean? 

• COMPLIANCE (noun)
  The noun COMPLIANCE has 3 senses:

1. acting according to certain accepted standards

2. a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

3. the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another

  Familiarity information: COMPLIANCE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPLIANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acting according to certain accepted standards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

abidance; compliance; conformation; conformity

Context example:

their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices

Hypernyms ("compliance" is a kind of...):

cooperation (joint operation or action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compliance"):

formality (compliance with formal rules)

line (acting in conformity)

honoring; observance (conformity with law or custom or practice etc.)

keeping (conformity or harmony)

Antonym:

noncompliance (the failure to obey)

Derivation:

comply (act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes)

Sense 2

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 ("compliance" is a kind of...):

agreeability; agreeableness (a temperamental disposition to be agreeable)

Derivation:

compliant (inclined to comply)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

compliance; submission

Hypernyms ("compliance" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compliance"):

obedience; obeisance (the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person)

prostration (abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body)

 Context examples 

Calcium benzoyl-PAS is better tolerated by patients, leading to higher compliance.

(Benzoylpas Calcium, NCI Thesaurus)

Resulting improvements in lung compliance and respiratory gas exchange may lead to improvements in ventilation and oxygenation.

(Calfactant, NCI Thesaurus)

He received my proposition with more compliance than is usual among writers, especially those of the projecting species, professing “he would be glad to receive further information.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Mrs. Phillips was very glad for his compliance, but could not wait for his reason.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

However much astonished I might be, I was sensible that I had no right to refuse compliance with such a peremptory command.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Your life may depend upon your compliance.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Colfosceril palmitate is effective in reducing the surface tension of pulmonary fluids, thereby increasing lung compliance properties to prevent alveolar collapse and improve breathing.

(Colfosceril Palmitate, NCI Thesaurus)

Tests conducted on a complete, integrated system to evaluate the system's compliance with its specified requirements.

(Device System Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Simplicity of administration tends to result in high patient compliance.

(Percutaneous Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

The resource provides design consultation, professional staff education, implementation and report completion services for clinical studies, adverse drug reaction reports evaluation to ensure compliance with regulatory agencies.

(Pharmaceutical Research Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)