compliant
[kuh m-plahy-uh nt]
- complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
- manufactured or produced in accordance with a specified body of rules (usually used in combination): Energy Star-compliant computers.
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Origin of compliant
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Examples from the Web for compliant
Contemporary Examples
The problem is, for this doctrine to succeed, the world must be compliant.
But the compliant reports that Loewen was ready for action a week later.
Financial firms want less regulation and defanged or compliant regulators.
Mystery Solved: Here’s Why Big Business Keeps Supporting Republicans Even as Republicans Destroy the EconomyDaniel Gross
October 3, 2013
Chávez was a master at keeping his allies and potential rivals off balance and compliant.
Firearms manufacturers simply found easy ways around the ban by marketing “compliant” weapons.
Historical Examples
She is easy, good-natured, and compliant about everything but her sleep.
Shall we ever subdue her and make her always submissive and compliant?
BonaventureGeorge Washington Cable
By his social and compliant temper he was calculated for general society.
The History of Dartmouth CollegeBaxter Perry Smith
We have been only too compliant to papa's wishes about that woman.
Sandra Belloni, CompleteGeorge Meredith
She was happy and serene, compliant with whatever was proposed.
A Little Girl in Old San FranciscoAmanda Minnie Douglas
compliant
compliable
- complying, obliging, or yielding
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Word Origin and History for compliant
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