compliance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun acting according to certain accepted standards
    conformity; conformation; abidance.
    • their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices
  2. noun a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
    deference; obligingness; complaisance; compliancy.
  3. noun the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
    submission.

WordNet

Com*pli"ance noun
Etymology
See Comply.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913