noncompliant

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English

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Etymology

From non- +‎ compliant.

Adjective

noncompliant (comparative more noncompliant, superlative most noncompliant)

  1. Not cooperating; rebellious.
    • 1988 January 22, Laya Frischer, “Further Adventures in Tot Control”, in Chicago Reader:
      It was directed toward a program, "Tuesday's Child," which endorses systematic, unquestioning rejection by parents of the program-created noncompliant behaviors in their eighteen-month- to five-year-old children.
  2. (technical) Not complying with certain rules or regulations.
    We just need to finish up a couple of things on the project, to make sure nothing's left noncompliant.

Translations

Noun

noncompliant (plural noncompliants)

  1. One who fails to comply, for example with a law.