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COMPLIANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compliancy mean? 

COMPLIANCY (noun)
  The noun COMPLIANCY has 1 sense:

1. a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of othersplay

  Familiarity information: COMPLIANCY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COMPLIANCY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

complaisance; compliance; compliancy; deference; obligingness

Hypernyms ("compliancy" is a kind of...):

agreeability; agreeableness (a temperamental disposition to be agreeable)

Derivation:

compliant (inclined to comply)

comply (act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes)


 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (English proverb)

"Feed the goat to fill the pot." (Albanian proverb)

"Maybe he wanted to throw himself in the well, would you follow?" (Armenian proverb)

"A horse aged thirty: don't add any more years." (Corsican proverb)



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