Word Meanings - COMPLIANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission. What compliances will remove dissension Swift. Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. Macaulay. 2. A disposition to yield to others;

Additional info about word: COMPLIANCE

1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission. What compliances will remove dissension Swift. Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. Macaulay. 2. A disposition to yield to others; complaisance. A man of few words and of great compliance. Clarendon. Syn. -- Concession; submission; consent; obedience; performance; execution; acqquiescence; assent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPLIANCE)

• Alacrity
• Quickness
• readiness
• briskness
• activity
• cheerfulness
• compliance
• willingness
• promptitude
• Assent
• Coincidence
• agreement
• concert
• acknowledgment
• consent
• acquiescence
• approval
• concurrence
• approbation
• Obedience
• Submission
• subservience
• Permission
• Leave
• license
• dispensation
• allowance
• liberty
• sufferance
• endurance

Related words: (words related to COMPLIANCE)

• CONSENTANEOUS
  Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• OBEDIENCE
  1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Government must compel the obedience of individuals. Ames. 2. Words or actions denoting
• SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
  The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley.
• CONCURRENCE
  1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• LEAVENING
  1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
• CONCERTMEISTER
  The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• ASSENTMENT
  Assent; agreement.
• CONCERTATIVE
  Contentious; quarrelsome. Bailey.
• COINCIDENCE
  1. The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley. 2. The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 3. Exact
• COMPLIANCE
  1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission. What compliances will remove dissension Swift. Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. Macaulay. 2. A disposition to yield to others;
• CHEERFULNESS
  Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
• LEAVELESS
  Leafless. Carew.
• CONSENTER
  One who consents.
• CONCERTION
  Act of concerting; adjustment. Young.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• PRECONSENT
  A previous consent.
• INOBEDIENCE
  Disobedience. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• DISCONSENT
  To differ; to disagree; to dissent. Milton.
• PRECONCERTED
  Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ness, n.
• FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
  Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.