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settle for

vb. (context idiomatic English) To accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable.

Usage examples of "settle for".

I hoped for another girl but was willing to settle for any baby-no way to control the sex of a child, then and there.

I hoped for another girl but was willing to settle for any baby—.

I was an Army brat, so I had to settle for making new friends almost every year.

If he could offer thirty-two five, I'll settle for forty thousand, and he assumes the mortgage.

Here's what you'll settle for: something equivalent, the quid pro quo.

If their roles were switched and Meeks were the purchaser, he didn't think for one minute that that old man would settle for what he had been told!

I'd settle for an ordinary girl, except she'd get dull after a while.