The failure or refusal to conform to rules, regulations, or standards. It indicates a state of not meeting established requirements or expectations.
From Latin 'non' (not) + 'complere' (to complete, fulfill). The compound formed in English during the 20th century as regulatory frameworks became more complex in business and healthcare.
Noncompliance often reveals the gap between idealistic regulations and messy reality - sometimes it's willful rebellion, but more often it's a sign that rules were written by people who never had to follow them. The cost of noncompliance monitoring sometimes exceeds the cost of the original problem.
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