Usually means: Complies with rules or commands.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. obeys: Merriam-Webster
  2. obeys: Collins English Dictionary
  3. obeys: Vocabulary.com
  4. Obey's, Obeys, obeys: Wordnik
  5. obeys: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. obeys: Wiktionary
  7. obeys: Dictionary.com
  8. obeys: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. obeys: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obeys: Legal dictionary

(Note: See obey as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (obey)

verb:  (transitive) To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
verb:  (intransitive) To do as one is told.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
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