adjective (written)
1 (usually disapproving) willing to agree with other people or to obey rules:
By then, Henry seemed less compliant with his wife's wishes than he had six months before. * We should not be producing compliant students who do not dare to criticize.
2 in agreement with a set of rules:
computer software that is year 2000 compliant
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for compliant is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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