| 单词 | compliance |
| 释义 | compliance (once / 931 pages) n Compliance is what you do when you try to fit standards set down by someone else. A restaurant chef's compliance with a new sugar-free menu might inspire even the pastry chefs to follow the recipes. Plywood helps illustrate the "pli" in compliance, because if you've ever stepped on a piece of plywood stretched across something, you've felt how it gives underneath your feet. It has flexibility. Compliance means being flexible or yielding and giving in to a situation or order. "Pliant" is part of the word compliance, and it means yielding. Agreeing or bending to something like a plan, rule, or direction is compliance. WORD FAMILYcompliance: compliances+/compliant: compliantly, noncompliant/comply: compliance, compliancy, compliant, complied, complies, complying/noncompliant: noncompliance, noncompliants USAGE EXAMPLESJones says that ensuring all counties are in compliance will bring in more state revenues from property taxes. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The United States, in other words, ranks with countries that conspicuously are not in full compliance with their international obligations. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) Before drinking my first cup of coffee, I like to get my cell in compliance. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) 1n the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another Syn|Hypo|Hyper submission obedience, obeisance the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person prostrationabject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body trucklingthe act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons) group action action taken by a group of people 2n a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others Syn|Hyper complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness agreeability, agreeableness a temperamental disposition to be agreeable 3n acting according to certain accepted standards Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper abidance, conformation, conformity disobedience, noncompliance the failure to obey nonconformance, nonconformityfailure to conform to accepted standards of behavior formality compliance with formal rules lineacting in conformity honoring, observanceconformity with law or custom or practice etc. keepingconformity or harmony punctiliostrict observance of formalities cooperation joint operation or action |
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