Compliance vs. Complaint

Compliance and Complaint Definitions
Compliance
The act of complying with a wish, request, or demand; acquiescence.
Complaint
An expression of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
Compliance
(Medicine) Willingness to follow a prescribed course of treatment.
Complaint
A cause or reason for complaining; a grievance
What is your complaint?.
Compliance
A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others.
Complaint
A bodily disorder or disease; a malady or ailment.
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Compliance
Extension or displacement of a loaded structure per unit load.
Complaint
The symptom or distress about which a patient seeks medical assistance.
Compliance
Flexibility.
Complaint
A formal statement initiating a lawsuit by specifying the facts and legal grounds for the relief sought.
Compliance
An act of complying.
Complaint
A formal charge, made under oath, of the commission of a crime or other such offense.
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Compliance
(uncountable) The state of being compliant.
Complaint
The act of complaining.
Compliance
(uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
Complaint
A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern.
I have no complaints about the quality of his work, but I don't enjoy his company.
Compliance
(mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
Complaint
(legal) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based;
The purpose is to give notice to the adversary of the nature and basis of the claim asserted.
The purpose is to give notice to the adversary of the nature and basis of the claim asserted.
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Compliance
(medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
Complaint
(legal) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.
However, court proceedings, such as a trial, cannot be instituted until an indictment or information has been handed down against the defendant.
However, court proceedings, such as a trial, cannot be instituted until an indictment or information has been handed down against the defendant.
Compliance
The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.
Complaint
A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
Don't come too close; I've got this nasty complaint.
Compliance
The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.
What compliances will remove dissension?
Ready compliance with the wishes of his people.
Complaint
Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.
I poured out my complaint before him.
Grievous complaints of you.
Compliance
A disposition to yield to others; complaisance.
A man of few words and of great compliance.
Complaint
Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.
The poverty of the clergy in England hath been the complaint of all who wish well to the church.
Compliance
Acting according to certain accepted standards
Complaint
An ailment or disease of the body.
One in a complaint of his bowels.
Compliance
Happy friendly agreement
Complaint
A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.
Compliance
A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
Complaint
An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
Compliance
The act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
Complaint
(formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow
Complaint
An expression of grievance or resentment
Complaint
(civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based
Complaint
(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense;
He was arrested on a charge of larceny