noncompliance.

Failure or refusal to follow a rule, order, or agreed requirement.

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Words that belong together

• regulatory noncompliance
• persistent noncompliance

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The audit identified repeated noncompliance with reporting rules.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. 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: analysis, description. Commonness: moderately common.