Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: compliance
IPA transcription: [kəmpl'aɪəns]
Pronunciations of compliance
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: conformity, conformation, compliance, abidance
    Meaning: acting according to certain accepted standards; "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"
Usage examples
  • The same winter the Athenians purified Delos, in compliance, it appears, with a certain oracle.
  • Cocalus feigned compliance and invited Minos to his palace, where he was treacherously put to death in a warm bath.
  • She could not refuse, but her compliance was without any sort of exertion, from a desire to avoid, not promote similar calls for exhibition.
  • But if, whether by design or by accident, I ever see or hear from her, that moment, my compliance to her mother's supplication ceases, and I abandon her once more."
  • I have meditated upon every possible expedient that might tend to your happiness, ere I fixed upon exacting from you a compliance which I am convinced will be most painful to you; but I can satisfy myself in none.
  • Augustus, for that was the name of the King of Poland, finding that now, since so great a force had arrived to succor and strengthen the place, there was no hope for success in any of his operations against it, concluded to make a virtue of necessity, and so he drew off his army, and sent word to the Dutch government that he did so in compliance with their wishes.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Accurate News and Information Act, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording History of Lebanon, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Acid2, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Crash test dummy, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Milgram experiment, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Service-oriented architecture, License CC BY-SA 4.0