Definition: compliance

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

compliance
     n 1: acting according to certain accepted standards [syn: conformity,
           conformation, abidance] [ant: disobedience, nonconformity]
     2: happy friendly agreement
     3: a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
        [syn: complaisance, compliancy, obligingness, deference]
     4: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
        [syn: submission]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Compliance \Com*pli"ance\, n. [See Comply.]
   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; acquiescence; assent.