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compliant

[ kuhm-plahy-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way:

    a man with a compliant nature.

  2. manufactured or produced in accordance with a specified body of rules (usually used in combination):

    Energy Star-compliant computers.



compliant

/ kəmˈplaɪənt /

adjective

  1. complying, obliging, or yielding
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • comˈpliantly, adverb
  • comˈpliantness, noun
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Other Words From

  • com·pliant·ly adverb
  • over·com·pliant adjective
  • precom·pliant adjective
  • quasi-com·pliant adjective
  • quasi-com·pliant·ly adverb
  • uncom·pliant adjective
  • uncom·pliant·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of compliant1

First recorded in 1635–45; comply + -ant
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Example Sentences

It is designed to be “fully compliant” with local regulations in those places, Uber said.

BriseBois, a general manager renowned as a “capologist” for handling player contracts and keeping teams compliant with the league’s salary cap, had his work cut out for him.

The company also aims to create a national cannabis loyalty platform, allowing a marijuana retailer in one state to easily expand its marketing capabilities into other states in a compliant fashion.

There are several new and pandemic-restriction-compliant deals tailored to all customers.

While sourcing data is an essential component of successful marketing, in 2021, small businesses will need to invest in implementing data privacy compliant processes and communicating those transparently to customers.

Rio Tinto also reiterated that holdings in the mine are fully compliant with the current sanctions regime.

Some of the most important accommodations are not line-skipping, nor expensive ADA-compliant building regulations.

The problem is, for this doctrine to succeed, the world must be compliant.

“His overall behavior has been mostly compliant and non-hostile toward the guard force and staff,” it says.

But the compliant reports that Loewen was ready for action a week later.

Festing was doubtful, but they found Norton, the contractor's engineer, more compliant than he hoped.

Belief in the real change gave her full view of the compliant coward she had been.

There certainly was a copy of "Frankenstein," and fifty years ago our flesh was so compliant as to creep during its perusal.

Dave was impressed to utter lack of speech, and resumed work upon the again compliant affair without comment.

In manners she was easy and compliant: in discourse sometimes grave and sometimes merry.

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