compliance.

1. The act or practice of following a request, instruction, rule or requirement.

2. The extent to which a material or structure deforms in response to an applied force or load.

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Words that belong together

• regulatory compliance
• compliance with a request

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Compliance with the request did not establish that the employee considered it reasonable.

The organization documented regulatory compliance while acknowledging weaknesses beyond the minimum rules.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / character / human behavior. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: characterization, motivation analysis, behavioral comparison, qualification. Disciplines: psychology, social behavior, character writing. Commonness: moderately common.