non-compliance
Failure to follow
Non-compliance is failure or refusal to follow rules, regulations, or requirements.
The term appears most often in legal, medical, and regulatory contexts: The company faced fines for non-compliance with safety standards, Patient non-compliance with medication schedules frustrated the doctor.
It implies willful disregard or neglect rather than inability.
Also spelled noncompliance.
Capacity to withstand force
- insubordinationDefying workplace authority
- refusalAct of declining
- recalcitranceStubborn refusal to obey
- obstinacyUnyielding adherence to position
contumacy · disobedience · uncooperative · intractable · willfulness · stubbornness · contrariness · unyielding
Breaking of rules
- infringementViolation of rights
- breachBreaking of agreement
- auditFormal accounts examination
- inspectionFormal assessment of condition
oversight · enforcement · citation · standards · guidelines · requirements · protocol · procedures
Acceptable in quality
- sanctionApproval or punitive measure
- penaltyPunishment for wrongdoing
- surchargeExtra fee added
- forfeitLose through violation
damages · punishment · levy · assessment · citation · warning · suspension · revocation
Therapeutic substance for illness
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- regimenPrescribed course of treatment
- prescriptionMedical dispensing authorization
- therapyCurative mental treatment
dosage · adherence · patient · follow-up · self-management · instructions · appointment · protocol
resistance
Capacity to withstand force
- insubordinationDefying workplace authority
- refusalAct of declining
- recalcitranceStubborn refusal to obey
obstinacy · contumacy · disobedience · uncooperative · intractable · willfulness · stubbornness · contrariness · unyielding · rebelliousness
violation
Breaking of rules
- infringementViolation of rights
- breachBreaking of agreement
- auditFormal accounts examination
inspection · oversight · enforcement · citation · standards · guidelines · requirements · protocol · procedures · disclosure
fine
Acceptable in quality
forfeit · damages · punishment · levy · assessment · citation · warning · suspension · revocation · injunction
medication
Therapeutic substance for illness
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- regimenPrescribed course of treatment
- prescriptionMedical dispensing authorization
therapy · dosage · adherence · patient · follow-up · self-management · instructions · appointment · protocol · contraindication
- audit findingsdeficiency, exception, discrepancy, issue, weakness
- treatment complianceadherence, treatment plan, missed dose, pill taking, pill reminder
- bureaucracybureaucracy, bureaucrat, bureaucrats, red tape, civil service
- passive aggressionsilent treatment, backhanded compliments, backhanded compliment, cold shoulder, eye rolling
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- standardsstandard, standards, norm, norms, criterion
non-compliancecompliance
Adhering to requirements
adherence · conformance · observance · fulfillment · accordance
non-complianceobedience
Compliance with authority
cooperation · submission · acquiescence · deference · docility
non-complianceconformity
Adherence to norms
conformism · orthodoxy · alignment · harmony · agreement