agreement vs compliance

agreement

noun
  • An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct. 

  • Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts. 

  • A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law. 

  • A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another. 

compliance

noun
  • The state of being compliant. 

  • An act of complying. 

  • The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others. 

  • A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility 

  • The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with. 

  • The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan 

How often have the words agreement and compliance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )