noncompliance

[non-kuh m-plahy-uh ns]

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noun

failure or refusal to comply, as with a law, regulation, or term of a contract.

Origin of noncompliance

First recorded in 1680–90; non- + compliance

Related formsnon·com·pli·ant, non·com·ply·ing, adjective, noun

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Related Words for non-compliant

barbarous, chaotic, turbulent, violent, unruly, anarchic, wayward, headstrong, inconsistent, refractory, belligerent, negative, irregular, bad, contumacious, criminal, despotic, disobedient, disordered, disorderly

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Historical Examples of non-compliant

In this interval means were used to mollify their non-compliant tempers, but all endeavours proved ineffectual.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II.
Tobias Smollett

British Dictionary definitions for non-compliant

noncompliance

noun

the act or state of not complying

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