Compliance vs Complicit - What's the difference?
compliance | complicit |
An act of complying.
(uncountable) The state of being compliant.
(uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
(medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
(uncountable, business) the department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with
Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
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As a noun compliance
is an act of complying.As an adjective complicit is
associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.compliance
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*(act of complying) violationcomplicit
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(en adjective)p. 203,
- It [slavery] has set the seal of a complicit , guilty silence upon the most orthodox pulpits and the saintliest tongues,
p. 177:
- "I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."
Letters," Time , 7 March:
- Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.