compliant

compliant
adjective Date: 1642 1. ready or disposed to comply ; submissive <
a corrupt regime aided by a compliant press
>
2. conforming to requirements <
compliant software
>
compliantly adverb

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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  • compliant — COMPLIÁNT, Ă adj. maleabil ascultător, supus. (< engl. compliant) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN …   Dicționar Român

  • compliant — I adjective accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, assenting, charitable, collaborative, concordant, concurring, conformable, conforming, consensual, consenting, docile, facile, favorable, indulgent, loyal, malleable,… …   Law dictionary

  • compliant — ► ADJECTIVE 1) tending to be excessively obedient or acquiescent. 2) complying with rules or standards. DERIVATIVES compliantly adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • compliant — [kəm plīənt] adj. complying or tending to comply; yielding; submissive SYN. OBEDIENT compliantly adv …   English World dictionary

  • compliant — com|pli|ant [kəmˈplaıənt] adj [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: comply] 1.) willing to obey or to agree to other people s wishes and demands →↑comply ▪ For years I had tried to be a compliant and dutiful wife. 2.) made or done according to particular… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • compliant — [[t]kəmpla͟ɪ͟ənt[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you say that someone is compliant, you mean they willingly do what they are asked to do. [FORMAL] She was much naughtier than her compliant brother. ...a docile and compliant workforce. Syn: pliant, pliable …   English dictionary

  • compliant — compliantly, adv. /keuhm pluy euhnt/, adj. 1. complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, esp. in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature. 2. manufactured or produced in accordance with a specified body of rules (usu. used in combination) …   Universalium

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