Compliance

n.	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.

Noun	1.	compliance - acting according to certain accepted standards Synonyms: abidance, conformity, conformation Antonyms: disobedience, noncompliance - the failure to obey
	2.	compliance - happy friendly agreement
	3.	compliance - a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others Synonyms: complaisance, compliancy, obligingness, deference
	4.	compliance - the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another Synonyms: submission

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