According to Statista, the global coffee industry is worth US$363 billion in 2020. The market grows annually by 10.6%, and 78% of revenue came from out-of-home establishments like cafes and coffee beverage retailers.
COMPLAISANCE
complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness, deference
(noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
complaisance (countable and uncountable, plural complaisances)
The quality of being complaisant, amiable or agreeable.
Source: Wiktionary
Com"plai*sance`, n. Etym: [F. complaisance. See Complaisant, and cf. Complacence.]
Definition: Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility. These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. Addison. They strive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.
Syn.
– Civility; courtesy; urbanity; suavity; affability; good breeding.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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