Meaning of compliance in English

compliance

noun [ U ]

formal

/kəmˈplaɪ.əns/ us

/kəmˈplaɪ.əns/

(also compliancy)

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the act of obeying a law or rule, especially one that controls a particular industry or type of work:

It is the job of the inspectors to enforce compliance with the regulations.

The company said that it had always acted in compliance with environmental laws.

They will conduct yearly audits to ensure compliancy with the latest regulations.

the act of doing everything that someone tells or wants you to do:

It's his compliance that amazes me.

They give orders and they expect absolute compliance.

The parents use positive reinforcement to gain their child's compliancy.

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Knowledge of banking and regulatory compliance is required for this post.
Our cake is made in strict compliance with the original recipe.
We have been working diligently to ensure compliance.
In this industry, compliancy with the highest safety standards is key.
We hope that the new policy will result in a higher compliancy rate.

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compliance

noun [ U ]

/kəmˈplaɪəns/ us

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the fact of obeying a particular law or rule, or of acting according to an agreement:

compliance with sth He pointed to the building's lack of compliance with building standards for the disabled.

compliance costs/procedures/standards, etc. The law imposes significant compliance costs on US businesses and is a deterrent to price competition.

We've been working hard to remain in compliance with all air pollution control laws.

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(Definition of compliance from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of compliance

compliance

This study was in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

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Thus, the same level of enforcement may yield different levels of compliance.

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The major focus of the 24- and 36-month visits is on parenting and toddler self-regulation (behavior problems, empathy, compliance, and internalization of parental rules).

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By contrasting the two experiences, it demonstrates that a successful tax policy relies to a significant extent on the population's degree of voluntary tax compliance.

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The existing literature on environmental compliance appears to have largely ignored the effects of corruption on environmental policy decisions.

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Moreover, social pressure was consistently significantly different from zero, indicating that the skippers' perceptions of other fishermen's compliance behaviour influence the intensity of their own.

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Compliance of the latter with democratically reached decisions may plausibly be thought of as one appropriate response to the value of democracy.

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This suggests that there may be another dimension related to compliance to authority.

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Effective treatment most often relies on nasal continuous positive airway pressure, but poor tolerance or compliance sometimes leads to treatment with oral appliances or surgery.

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The compliance to the environmental standards requires both private and public investments.

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For the sake of simplicity, we assume 100% compliance with screening in these estimates-lower compliance rates would lower costs pro rata.

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Creating a tool to identify these characteristics can lead to better treatment outcomes and earlier interventions to help improve compliance with medication regimens.

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Factors of a compliance matrix including all elastic deformations.

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Few cases of offset trading have begun, although emission standard compliance has improved.

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These are exactly the kinds of issues most relevant to assessing the impact of member states' incentives to deviate on compliance.

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Collocations with compliance

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compliance requirement

Obviously, that is to ensure that compliance requirements are minimised.

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degree of compliance

However, there is a large variation in the degree of compliance among the firms measured in terms of ratio of standard to effluent quality.

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full compliance

This attitude tends to generate automatic tax-compliance decisions, often irrespective of the costs of full compliance.

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