conformance
Marketing plays on our insecurities, our need to conform.
He encouraged me as an artist by helping me to realize that performers didn't have to conform to the accepted style.
Women writers may have written under male names to conform with social prejudices, or simply to maintain their privacy.
The company told contractors that plants would have to conform to US factory conditions.
The clinic conforms with all current laws, regulations and patient safety practices.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Custom, tradition & conformity
Americanization
anti-classical
anti-conventional
anti-institutional
anti-traditional
costume
counter-tradition
crowd
custom
demi-monde
moonraker
mores
multicultural
multiculturalism
multiculturally
traditionalist
traditionally
ultra-conservatism
ultra-conservative
ultra-traditional

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Quality and standard
Obeying & breaking the law

conform | American Dictionary

conform
verb[ I ]
us/kənˈfɔrm/
to behave according to a group’s usual standards and expectations, or to operate according to a rule:
The contract requires that managers conform to high standards of personal conduct.
Wood-burning stoves must conform to the fire code.

conformity

noun[ U ]us/kənˈfɔr·mɪ·t̬i/
He felt suffocated by the conformity of suburban life.

conform | Business English

conform
verb[ I ]
uk /kənˈfɔːm/us
to obey a rule or reach the necessary stated standard:
conform to sth70% of these imports come from pigs raised under conditions that would not conform to UK minimum standards.
conform with sthThe Food and Drug Administration approved an 18-month extension of the patent on the drug to conform with new international trade agreements.

conformity

noun[ U ]uk /kənˈfɔːmɪti/ us /-ˈfɔːrmətIi/
conformity with sthOur goal is to improve conformity with customer requirements.
conformity to sthThe installation will be tested for conformity to specification.

Examples of conform

conform
Many of them, unlike many new recluses, seem to have conformed to the canonical requirements of enclosure.
It is often the case that the texts required of a given application will conform in structure to a relatively small number of patterns.
The designer/developer may be held responsible for any damages caused by the agent if the exhibited behaviour does not conform to the design specification.
After all, whatever meaning will be ascribed, the process of ascribing will include the same aspects and conform to the same principles.
Call-by-value semantics evidently conforms nicely to strict equality.
This is a modernist inter pretation that does not conform with the earlier tafas-r on these verses.
Note that all types conforming to this grammar are products whose terms are either primitive or function types.
There are, however, individuals who do not appear to conform to group norms.
Thus, evidence is required that such input has prompted the child to realign an immature grammar to conform to adult norms.
Although this is a mathematically convenient assumption, the way humans look at the world does not always conform to it.
It does conform to the bet hedging hypothesis of maximizing the period of transmission and maximizing the likelihood of contacting the next host.
Readers should also know that some of the examples do not conform to the piano-vocal scores.
We produce them, and then, by conforming our actions to their constraints, we reproduce them.
In all cases, converged decision rules conform to the predictions of economic theory.
To make it more palatable, he conforms to melodramatic conventions.
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