"compliance" in the noun sense
1. conformity, conformation, compliance, abidance
acting according to certain accepted standards
"their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"
2. complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness, deference
a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
3. submission, compliance
the act of submitting usually surrendering power to another
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