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Comply and Compliance Definitions

Comply

To act in accordance with another's command, request, rule, or wish
The patient complied with the physician's orders.

Compliance

The act of complying with a wish, request, or demand; acquiescence.

Comply

(Obsolete) To be courteous or obedient.

Compliance

(Medicine) Willingness to follow a prescribed course of treatment.

Comply

To yield assent; to accord; to acquiesce, agree, consent; to adapt oneself, to conform.

Compliance

A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others.
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Comply

(archaic) To accomplish, to fulfil.

Compliance

Extension or displacement of a loaded structure per unit load.

Comply

(archaic) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.

Compliance

Flexibility.

Comply

(archaic) To enfold; to embrace.

Compliance

An act of complying.
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Comply

To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; - usually followed by with.
Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply,Scandalous or forbidden in our law.
They did servilely comply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images.
He that complies against his willIs of his own opinion still.

Compliance

(uncountable) The state of being compliant.

Comply

To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.

Compliance

(uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.

Comply

To fulfill; to accomplish.

Compliance

(mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
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Comply

To infold; to embrace.
Seemed to comply,Cloudlike, the daintie deitie.

Compliance

(medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan

Comply

Act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes;
He complied with my instructions
You must comply or else!
Follow these simple rules
Abide by the rules

Compliance

The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.

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.

Compliance

A disposition to yield to others; complaisance.
A man of few words and of great compliance.

Compliance

Acting according to certain accepted standards

Compliance

Happy friendly agreement

Compliance

A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

Compliance

The act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another

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