complier

American  

[kuhm-plahy-er] / kəmˈplaɪ ər /

noun

• compliers
  plural

1. a person, group, etc., that complies.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• noncomplier
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• compliers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of complier

First recorded in 1605–15; comply + -er ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

complier compliers

"Cry, crier, decrier, decrial; Shy, shily, shyly, shiness, shyness; Fly, flier, flyer, high-flier; Sly, slily, slyly, sliness, slyness; Ply, pliers, plyers, plying, complier; Dry, drier, dryer, dryly, dryness."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Also in the Times are the words that dictionary compliers Harper Collins say were once trending but went out of common use before their definitions could be included.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2014

But I will yet go one step farther, by supposing that a hundred new employments were erected on purpose to gratify compliers, yet still an insuperable difficulty would remain.

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)

But next, if we consider their practice, we shall find these worthies were not such conformists, as our compliers would make them.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

Hardhill was always a man very particular upon the testimony of the day, which made some compliers censure him as one too harsh and rugged in point of principle; but this must be altogether groundless.

From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by Howie, John

And accordingly in the time of Montrose, the general assembly made an act for censuring the compliers with the public enemies of this church and kingdom, June 17.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander