the.com/noncompliance

The art of doing what you were going to do anyway, now with paperwork.

means The state of not following a rule, request, or standard that you were supposed to follow.

from Built from the negating prefix 'non-' plus 'compliance,' which traces back to the Latin 'complere' — 'to complete or fulfill' — by way of 'complire/complire,' meaning to accommodate or conform oneself to another's wishes. 'Compliance' entered English in the 1600s as a term for pliant, yielding behavior; 'noncompliance' simply plants a flag of refusal in front of it, turning fulfillment into its opposite.

legal term for
ignoring rules without technically denying them
favorite habitat
terms of service nobody reads
corporate synonym
calculated risk
usually discovered
during the audit, not before
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