Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that complies.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who complies, yields, or obeys; a person of ready compliance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who complies or obeys.

Etymologies

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comply +‎ -er

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Examples

  • He is only the complier it was actually written by two different people one a ardent fundamentalist hyper literalist and another a skeptic.

    Augustine on Creation 2009

  • As the complier of it engaged in the undertaking at the instance and importunity of many persons of eminent account and distinction, so she can truly assure them, and the world, that she has acquitted herself with the utmost care and fidelity.

    English Housewifery 2004

  • He is also the complier of several Tamil dictionaries, among them the quadruple lexicon containing words, synonyms, categories of words, and rhymes; a

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • 'I would not suffer a complier to break bread with Christian folk.

    Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Farther on, in the same scene, Freeman, a gentleman well educated, but of a broken fortune, a complier with the age, thus admonishes Jerry:

    Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

  • "The committee is merely cosmetic and won't recommend any changes that will hurt the banks because they're Spain's sacred cows," said Alvarez, who was also a co-founder of Publica Subasta, Spain's largest complier of data on public auctions.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • NET complier is intelligent enough and deployes the satellite assemblies to bin\debug\ or bin\release\ directory after successful compilation.

    The Code Project Latest Articles Motiram P Patil 2010

  • But a static analysis tool looks at source code the same way a complier does, and so it has much more knowledge of what will happen than a human does.

    LXer Linux News Shawn Hernan 2010

  • Can any one suggest me, im using Windows 7, i m try to install the Turbo C complier, but it is creating virtual directory, after completion of the creation of directory, it will ask for renameing the root path,

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community puttam77e 2010

  • But a static analysis tool looks at source code the same way a complier does, and so it has much more knowledge of what will happen than a human does.

    MSDN Blogs shawnhernan 2010

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