compliance
Other forms: compliances
Compliance is what you do when you try to fit standards set down by someone else. A restaurant chef's compliance with a new sugar-free menu might inspire even the pastry chefs to follow the recipes.
Plywood helps illustrate the "pli" in compliance, because if you've ever stepped on a piece of plywood stretched across something, you've felt how it gives underneath your feet. It has flexibility. Compliance means being flexible or yielding and giving in to a situation or order. "Pliant" is part of the word compliance, and it means yielding. Agreeing or bending to something like a plan, rule, or direction is compliance.
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the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to anothersynonyms: submissiontypes:obedience, obeisancethe act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another personprostrationabject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your bodytrucklingthe act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons)type of:group actionaction taken by a group of people
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a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of otherssynonyms: complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness
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acting according to certain accepted standardssynonyms: abidance, conformation, conformityantonyms:noncompliancethe failure to obeytypes:formalitycompliance with formal ruleslineacting in conformitykeepingconformity or harmonypunctiliostrict observance of formalitiestype of:cooperationjoint operation or action
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The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776 by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, with a preamble by John Adams and editing by Benjamin Franklin and other members of Congress, it outlines the offenses of King George III to justify the vote for independence that had taken place two days earlier. With the colonies already one year into a war, the Declaration closed the door on reconciliation with Great Britain and paved the way for the creation of the United States of America. Read the full text here.
Written by the influential abolitionist, Douglass's autobiography bears witness to the horrors of slavery.