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What does compliant mean?

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Adjective
  1. Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
  2. Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.
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All train vehicles will have to be compliant with disabled access regulations by 2020 at the latest.
She stands her ground in an argument, she likes to have the last word but at the same time she can be very compliant and wants to please.
On the negative side, the directive has resulted in unsocial shifts and yet another tier of bureaucracy to ensure that rotas are compliant.
The newsroom became the home of the tame dissident and the compliant office holder.
Women are more adaptable, compliant and possess the communication skills required by the call centre service economy.
But unlike the latter's compliant filles, Golub's Junoesque women project a potency exceeding even that of the Spaniard's priapic Minotaur.

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