comply

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
comply /kəmˈplʌɪ/
verb (complies, complying, complied) (often comply with)
  • 1 act in accordance with a wish or command.
  • 2 meet specified standards.
– origin C16 (in sense ‘fulfil, accomplish’, later ‘fulfil the requirements of courtesy’): from Ital. complire, Catalan complir, Sp. cumplir, from L. complere (see complete); cf. compliment.
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