Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Disposed or willing to comply; submissive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yielding; bending; pliant.
- Yielding to request or desire; ready to accommodate; consenting; obliging.
- noun A complier.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Willing to
comply ;yielding ;bending ;pliant ;submissive ; willing to do what someone wants. - adjective
Compatible with or followingguidelines ,specifications ,rules , orlaws .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective disposed or willing to comply
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Examples
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Pistorius told the court that the term compliant defined a person who "gave in" and should not be confused with a consenting person who "gave permission".
IOL: News 2010
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Pistorius told the court that the term compliant defined a person who "gave in" and should not be confused with a consenting person who "gave permission".
IOL: News 2010
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Pistorius told the court that the term compliant defined a person who "gave in" and should not be confused with a consenting person who "gave permission".
IOL: News 2010
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Pistorius told the court that the term compliant defined a person who "gave in" and should not be confused with a consenting person who "gave permission".
IOL: News 2010
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Instead, the Company should have used the word "compliant."
unknown title 2011
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It's much more cost effective for me to hire a professional plumber to fix any issues that come up than for me to learn how to fix it and remain compliant with various codes.
Preferring Ignorance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But it would behoove us to remain compliant with the NATO protocol which requires detainees to be transferred within 96 hours of capture, and it would also behoove us to be compliant with the Geneva Conventions which are quite explicit in treatment of prisoners of war.
Detainee Transfer Details Leaked To Press « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Drugging your rebellious child just to make him more compliant is repugnant, but treating his oppositional defiant disorder only responsible parenting.
You Are All Diseased 2007
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Inconspicuously compliant is the thing: the jug and the bench, the footbridge and the plow.
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In other words, do I teach my Foster Parents to train compliant drones, or raise rational independent thinkers?
Think Progress » “One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever” 2005
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