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say it: kuhm-PLAHY-uhns
compliance is a noun meaning "acting according to certain accepted standards". It carries 3 recorded senses.
acting according to certain accepted standards
“their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices”
a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for compliance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.