Advance Vocabulary - Obedience and Cooperation

adherence noun
(formal) the action of continuing to obey a rule, law, agreement etc.

complaisance noun
(very formal) a way of behaving in which you try to please other people.

compliance noun
(formal) the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request.

cooperation noun
a situation in which people or organizations work together to achieve a result that will benefit all of them.

give-and-take noun
a situation in which people or groups who want different things each give some things to the others and get some things from the others.

integrity noun
the quality of behaving according to the rules and standards of your job or profession.

legalism noun
the fact that someone obeys the laws in a very strict and exact way.

obedience noun
the practice of doing what someone tells you to do, or of obeying a law or rule.

observance noun
the practice of obeying a law or rule, or of doing something according to a tradition.

observation noun
the practice of obeying a law, rule, or custom.

opiate noun
(formal) something that tends to prevent people from having their own opinions and makes them quiet and easily controlled.

opium noun
something that tends to prevent people from having their own opinions and makes them quiet and easily controlled.

order noun
the fact of obeying the rules of a formal meeting, for example in a parliament.

order noun
a situation in which people obey the law and follow the accepted rules of social behaviour.

two-way street noun
a situation in which two people or two groups of people need to work together.

at someone’s bidding
if you do something at someone’s bidding, you do it because they ask or tell you to.

at someone’s insistence
because someone has said that something must happen.

at someone’s invitation at the invitation of someone
if you do something at someone’s invitation, you do it when they ask or invite you.

at someone’s request suggestion invitation etc
because someone has asked you to do something suggested something etc.

at the behest of someone
(very formal) because someone has asked for something or said it must happen.

by the book
correctly, following all the rules or systems for doing something in a strict way.

by the numbers
(mainly American) in a way that is exactly according to the rules.

give and take
(informal) if there is give and take between people, each person allows the other to get something that they want.

(just) say the word
(spoken) used for telling someone that you are ready to do something for them as soon as they ask.

there’s no such thing as a free lunch
used for saying that people cannot get something good without working hard or giving something in exchange.

will do
(spoken) used for telling someone that you will do what they have asked.

without question
if someone does something without question, they do it without asking any questions.

servility noun
obsequiousness, obedience.

slavishness noun
submissiveness noun

 

 

See also:

To obey a law or rule	Common Prepositions
Obedient and Cooperative	Common Phrasal Verbs
Disobedience and Failure to Cooperate	Common Cliché words
To fail to Obey a rule	Thematic list of Idioms
Disobedient and Uncooperative	Irregular Verbs list

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