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1. Acting according to certain accepted standards
   "their financial statements are in compliance with generally accepted accounting practices"
   - conformity, conformation, abidance
    
2. A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
   - complaisance, compliancy, obligingness, deference
    
3. The act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
   - submission

Derived forms: compliances

See also: compliant, comply

Type of: agreeability, agreeableness, cooperation, group action

Antonym: noncompliance

Encyclopedia: Compliance