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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
compromise
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an uneasy compromise
▪ The result was an uneasy compromise which no-one liked.
betray/compromise your principles (=do something that is against your principles)
▪ I knew I could lie to help him, but it would be betraying my principles.
reach an agreement/compromise/settlement (=decide on an arrangement that is acceptable to both groups)
▪ Substantial progress was made toward reaching an agreement.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acceptable
▪ So averaging two adjacent lines, then using the averaged line twice, is an acceptable compromise.
▪ A federation can be an acceptable compromise when strong peripheral governments create a central government.
▪ An often acceptable compromise is local manufacture or assembly by a multinational company.
▪ The model will be used to explore these energy strategies which might form the basis of acceptable compromises.
good
▪ A moderately wide tail provides the best compromise for all conditions and this is what we find on most boards under 3.30m.
▪ I had always been good at compromise, working effectively in the mainstream.
▪ The best compromise is the partially open backed cabinet, similar to the Mesa Boogie 2x12 and 4x12 design.
▪ Quality - this should represent the best compromise between the wishes of the customer and the limitations of production.
▪ Needlers has come up with a good compromise with the introduction of its New Energy Bar.
▪ This solution represents the best compromise between information from each of the knowledge sources.
▪ The optimum polymer concentration therefore that would yield the best compromise between total glucose availability and low osmolality remains to be determined.
▪ The best compromise is to disguise surface-run cables with paint, and chase them in when you next redecorate.
political
▪ The government eventually adopted a political compromise.
▪ We acknowledge that political compromise may indeed explain the typical process surrounding the implementation of major change in most organizations.
▪ By September, Ambassador Habib produced a political compromise.
▪ The Minnesota bill, a political compromise, is only a pilot program.
possible
▪ Raybestos ruled out the possible compromise of a temporary permission to dump asbestos at the site.
▪ There are some possible compromises, like centralization with selective local overriding, and Guide follows this approach.
▪ But later the deputies set the stage for possible compromise by agreeing to debate a referendum after all.
▪ I have already worked to get the best possible compromise for residents regarding the development of Lucy's North Site.
reasonable
▪ I prefer achieving a reasonable compromise 8b.
▪ I strongly urge him to do so, if he can reach a sensible and reasonable compromise.
uneasy
▪ Five years on, they have reached an uneasy compromise of separate stages, each with its own cast of characters.
▪ Gordon explained that I would be permitted to remain under a set of conditions that obviously represented an uneasy compromise.
▪ The result was the uneasy compromise between deterrent and retributive aims that characterised neoclassicism.
▪ Instead of adopting one or other of these policies, they have tried to hide their difference beneath an uneasy and evasive compromise.
▪ The result was an uneasy compromise, in which for some meetings there would be a chairperson, in others not.
▪ Typical of the uneasy compromises that resulted was the Ten Articles of Faith laid down by convocation in 1536.
■ NOUN
candidate
▪ An undistinguished Senator from Ohio, he had been nominated as a compromise candidate at the Republican convention.
▪ I know that competitions are often won by compromise candidates, the pianists everyone on the jury can agree upon.
formula
▪ The convention ignored Morris and accepted the compromise formula.
plan
▪ George W.. Bush, who sat through most of the sessions where the compromise plans were hammered out.
▪ Thompson said he expected the governors to rally behind a compromise plan on welfare and education and training grants Tuesday.
▪ The compromise plan would require states to spend 75 percent of what they are contributing now for the program.
position
▪ Thus, it stands in an interim, compromise position along the road to social transformation.
▪ And this means that the easy compromise position is unavailable.
solution
▪ The compromise solution is therefore for management to subscribe a nominal number of shares in Newco early in the proceedings.
▪ The compromise solution in Berlin did not lead to a permanent end to tension.
▪ Retirement at 63 is the obvious compromise solution.
▪ This device might provide the basis of a compromise solution.
▪ It is a compromise solution which leaves the best-execution pillar swaying precariously.
▪ These are compromise solutions from a technological viewpoint.
▪ By this means the usual order of events led toward a compromise solution eventually being reached.
▪ Lord Macdonald's compromise solution avoided a constitutional showdown.
■ VERB
accept
▪ Indeed de Gaulle's own negotiator advised the General to accept a compromise.
▪ The convention ignored Morris and accepted the compromise formula.
▪ Many of these were accepted during compromise negotiations, resulting in tighter regulations than originally proposed.
▪ For a whole year, to avoid disagreements, our Assembly has accepted every kind of compromise.
▪ The five had always perhaps accepted the necessity of compromise.
▪ The regents voted unanimously to accept a compromise plan delaying the end of affirmative action until spring 1998.
▪ Age-old enemies have accepted that compromise is the only peaceful way forward.
▪ The tragedy of 1914 was that neither side could accept this obvious compromise because neither could sell it to their own followers.
achieve
▪ Constraints of finance, manpower and time all conspire to limit what may be achieved, and compromises are inevitable.
▪ I prefer achieving a reasonable compromise 8b.
▪ We could achieve this compromise in a Solomonic way.
agree
▪ The band realised such novelties would help Red Rhino sell more records, so agreed to the slight compromise.
▪ Republicans agreed to compromises that got the bill signed into law.
▪ On May 29 it was reported that the two sides had agreed a compromise, to allow the talks to proceed.
arrive
▪ He finally arrived at a compromise with her, which was that he could have three independent, non-civil servant, advisers.
find
▪ This improves the flow of gases, but also increases noise, so the firm must find a compromise.
▪ By May, they had found a new compromise text.
▪ He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
▪ Did opposing views find compromise in final report?
▪ There John Major will try to find a compromise between saving money and saving his majority.
▪ The Savoyard rulers never managed to find a satisfactory compromise between these different demands.
▪ At a 12-hour meeting that ended early on March 21st, they found a compromise.
▪ Eventually we have to find a compromise.
involve
▪ It may involve compromises, for instance over the frequency with which comprehensive large-scale mapping data is preserved.
▪ Furthermore, science is not supposed to involve the kinds of compromises on political and financial grounds that this controversy has involved.
▪ So egg production involves a neat compromise.
▪ Over time, coexistence was inevitable, involving compromise and limited mutual tolerance.
▪ We are satisfied that the activity of digging out and shooting a fox involves a serious compromise of its welfare.
▪ Sampling procedures, then, necessarily involve a series of compromises.
▪ Because it is unresolved it hints at the tactics involved before a compromise is reached.
▪ The evolution of parasitic relationships involves countless compromises and adjustments between the two partners.
make
▪ The building oozed a melancholy yet defiant air, cornered by an unforgiving landscape with which it refused to make any compromises.
▪ Since both were only children, perhaps neither knew how to make compromises, and there were inevitable personality conflicts.
▪ She owed it to her daughter to make this compromise.
▪ If anything, they are more likely to be understated because loot parents frequently make job compromises.
▪ Nigel, by opting out of the computer course, had already made his compromise with ambitious dreams.
▪ They made up this muddled compromise out of all of them.
▪ It seems the onus is still very much on women to make the compromise, if needed, in a relationship.
▪ At night, I lie sleepless and worry that I have made too many compromises.
offer
▪ The exception may nevertheless be worthwhile making to see what the landlord will offer as a compromise.
▪ But Mr Bush's offered compromise is an important first step.
propose
▪ Vegan Action, which promotes a completely vegetarian lifestyle, proposed a compromise.
reach
▪ As for smoking, we reached a compromise.
▪ Within a few months, they made the triumphant proclamation that they had reached a compromise all sides could live with.
▪ Eventually I reach the same old compromise.
▪ Republicans said they see little chance of reaching a compromise this year.
▪ It's hoping to meet the shopkeepers and reach a compromise.
▪ How hard after all these decades to reach out and compromise.
▪ Luckily the timely intervention of Trevor Proby's left boot into my right ear quickened everyone's resolve to reach a compromise.
▪ Failure to reach compromises on spending in 1995 and 1996 triggered two partial government shutdowns.
reject
▪ Rome steadily rejected any compromise upon all three and continued to do so into the twentieth century.
represent
▪ Quality - this should represent the best compromise between the wishes of the customer and the limitations of production.
▪ A score somewhere in between represents an accommodation or compromise between both points of view.
▪ This solution represents the best compromise between information from each of the knowledge sources.
▪ Gordon explained that I would be permitted to remain under a set of conditions that obviously represented an uneasy compromise.
▪ Birds that waddle, like the penguin, represent another compromise.
▪ We call this a radical pluralist position, since it represents a compromise between Marxism and the pluralist tradition in sociology.
▪ The installations in our streets usually represent the best compromise that can be found.
▪ But it represents a compromise between opposing or contradictory interests not untypical of media policy.
require
▪ Flattening out the convoluted surface of the brain requires more compromises than that.
▪ Reciprocity, the favorite word of Netanyahu, requires consultation and compromise on both sides, not unilateral moves by either.
▪ Deciding on a speed has always required a compromise between sound quality and playing time.
▪ Marriage frequently requires heroic compromise on the part of one or both spouses.
▪ It also requires trade-offs and compromises, just as any collective action does.
▪ Yet any big move by the reborn Republican governor will require a compromise with Democratic legislators.
seek
▪ Ministers are seeking a compromise that would reassure rebel peers who rejected a bill abolishing the clause last week.
▪ His rise to power in Washington is based primarily on his ability to seek compromise to get things done.
▪ Villa-Flotilla is yachting for novices, for families seeking a compromise, or for friends who like variety.
▪ The manifesto was many things to many artists and tended to seek a compromise among the various concepts of the fourth dimension.
▪ But a day after the blow-up, the committee assigned to seek a compromise won a three-month reprieve.
strike
▪ Although he pathetically offered me an apology, I remained adamant until we struck a compromise.
▪ The LutheranCatholic document strikes a compromise.
suggest
▪ So it suggests a compromise which asks that meat from religious slaughter, where animals are not stunned, should be labelled.
▪ Mr Olasky, the pragmatist leader, suggests a compromise.
try
▪ Furniture retailer Conroys is trying to engineer a compromise.
▪ Yaki had tried to broker a compromise earlier this year to keep the initiative off the ballot.
▪ He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
▪ There John Major will try to find a compromise between saving money and saving his majority.
work
▪ No single approach will work alone and compromises must be made.
▪ The main function of civil service participation in the work of the Cabinet and its committees is to work out interdepartmental compromises.
▪ Legislators worked out a compromise in the Department of Human Services' spending bill.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the word) failure/guilt/compromise etc is not in sb's vocabulary
arrive at a decision/solution/compromise etc
▪ He arrived at a decision, threw the cigarette away, and turned towards a small depressing row of agricultural cottages.
▪ He finally arrived at a compromise with her, which was that he could have three independent, non-civil servant, advisers.
▪ However, the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution.
▪ In such a case, some form of conflict resolution must be adopted to arrive at a solution.
▪ My colleagues and I, after much consideration have arrived at a decision.
▪ Now, she thought, now we shall get things done, sort things out, arrive at a solution.
▪ They spent time arriving at a decision on the correct software.
▪ Using committees internally to overcome restrictions on information and thereby arrive at a decision.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After several hours of discussions, they managed to reach a compromise.
▪ Decisions came only after a long process of compromise.
▪ Officials hope to find a compromise between Britain and other EU members.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But whether the compromise bolsters the prospects for permanent peace in Bosnia is another story.
▪ The compromise provides aid for children and gives counties the option of providing parents with employment or other services.
▪ The centre stands for compromise between president and parliament - and compromise no longer seems a solution to their bitter war.
▪ The defence minister, General Pavel Grachev, called for a compromise and promised that the army would stay out of the dispute.
▪ There is a necessary compromise which can only be arrived at in the context of a particular system.
▪ Whipped by bad fortune, surrendering to the inexorable gravity of downward-sliding consequences, Edna enforced home order without compromise.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
seriously
▪ We are satisfied that this experience seriously compromises the welfare of the fox.
▪ With two races completed and zero points on the board, his title hopes are already seriously compromised.
■ NOUN
independence
▪ This means no donations or sponsorship can be accepted that would compromise Amnesty's overall independence or impartiality.
integrity
▪ Your Toyota is a sophisticated piece of machinery; to fit non-genuine parts is to compromise its design integrity.
▪ If the server were compromised, the integrity of the whole system would fail.
▪ Can he lend his name to the petition without compromising his professional integrity?
▪ This upgrade places Dreamweaver firmly back in the middle ground without compromising the professional integrity of previous releases.
issue
▪ In the end we compromised and deferred the issue for later discussion between us.
position
▪ Lee's new political role was said to compromise his position as senior member in liaising between Legco and the government.
▪ That, however, could be the most compromising position he could put himself into.
▪ Conspiracy theorists might guess that Brown has Polaroids of Wilson in a compromising position.
principle
▪ But this compromises the once-sacrosanct principle that used to shield doctor-patient communications from public view.
▪ Conviction to the point of resignation Always be prepared to resign Organizations fail because managers compromise their principles.
▪ What he won't accept are decisions which compromise his principles: principles of openness, honesty and commitment amongst others.
▪ We say that the state as a whole does wrong in accepting an internal compromise because it then compromises its principles.
safety
▪ This meant that the rotor could be used in heavy winds and should not compromise the ship's safety.
▪ I would be compromising her safety and well-being with integration.
▪ For our part, we were not prepared to compromise on standards of safety and quality.
▪ Those farmers who compromise on safety must be hit hard, where it hurts - in the pocket.
standard
▪ We are committed to widening opportunities without compromising academic standards.
▪ The search is usually hard enough in itself but many students will also have to compromise their standards.
▪ For our part, we were not prepared to compromise on standards of safety and quality.
▪ Not wishing to compromise my own standards, I left this firm very quickly.
▪ Never allow frenzied phone calls from estate agents or other practitioners to compromise professional standards.
system
▪ If the compromised system is on a backbone network, intruders can monitor any transit traffic traversing between nodes on that network.
▪ In Houston, people with compromised immune systems are being warned about the fruit.
willingness
▪ Britain's willingness to compromise had been far less marked.
▪ Even when differences exist, the key is willingness to compromise.
▪ While Curzon showed him every courtesy, Kitchener treated his willingness to compromise as weakness.
▪ A looser structure, a willingness to compromise the party's programme and dilute its composition, would have been fatal.
▪ Their willingness to compromise their reproductive purity is a great help in understanding what keeps the various kinds apart.
■ VERB
refuse
▪ For a long time there had been no one else for him because he refused to compromise.
▪ Then, in a showdown with Clinton last winter, Congress refused to compromise over its seven-year plan to balance the budget.
▪ By refusing to compromise, Perry had little chance of stardom, so he settled on becoming a minor legend instead.
▪ Archbishop Perier, ever cautious, refused to compromise on the point.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the word) failure/guilt/compromise etc is not in sb's vocabulary
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Critics accused the mayor of compromising too easily.
▪ Stalin refused to compromise on any of his demands.
▪ The employers will have to be ready to compromise if they want to avoid a strike.
▪ The patient's immune system has been compromised by cancer treatments.
▪ The President might be willing to compromise on defense spending.
▪ They compromised by alternating days on which each chose the activity.
▪ We need to increase profits without compromising employees' safety.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any attempt to impose some sort of external watchdog that might apply a degree of accountability is rejected as compromising its secrecy.
▪ But this compromises the once-sacrosanct principle that used to shield doctor-patient communications from public view.
▪ Further, he contends that Shimomura was developing sophisticated programs to help secure the Internet, not compromise it.
▪ He is very much aware of public opinion, and he knows how to compromise in the interest of the nation.
▪ Sandra quickly compromised and accepted the new work schedule.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compromise

Compromise \Com"pro*mise\, n. [F. compromis, fr. L. compromissum a mutual promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to make such a promise; com- + promittere to promise. See Promise.]

  1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. [Obs.]
    --Burrill.

  2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement.

    But basely yielded upon compromise That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
    --Shak.

    All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
    --Burke.

    An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
    --Hallam.

  3. A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender; as, a compromise of character or right.

    I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them.
    --Lamb.

Compromise

Compromise \Com"pro*mise\, v. i.

  1. To agree; to accord. [Obs.]

  2. To make concession for conciliation and peace.

Compromise

Compromise \Com"pro*mise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compromised; p. pr. & vb. n. Compromising.] [From Compromise, n.; cf. Compromit.]

  1. To bind by mutual agreement; to agree. [Obs.]

    Laban and himself were compromised That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire.
    --Shak.

  2. To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.

    The controversy may easily be compromised.
    --Fuller.

  3. To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.

    To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.
    --Motley.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
compromise

early 15c., "a joint promise to abide by an arbiter's decision," from Middle French compromis (13c.), from Latin compromissus, past participle of compromittere "to make a mutual promise" (to abide by the arbiter's decision), from com- "together" (see com-) + promittere (see promise). The main modern sense of "a coming to terms" is from extension to the settlement itself (late 15c.).

compromise

mid-15c., from compromise (n.). Related: Compromised; compromising.

Wiktionary
compromise

n. 1 The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions. 2 A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender. vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To bind by mutual agreement. 2 To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound. 3 (context intransitive English) To find a way between extremes. 4 To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion. 5 (context transitive English) To cause impairment of. 6 (context transitive English) To breach (a security system).

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WordNet
compromise

  1. n. a middle way between two extremes [syn: via media]

  2. an accommodation in which both sides make concessions; "the newly elected congressmen rejected a compromise because they considered it `business as usual'"

compromise

  1. v. make a compromise; arrive at a compromise; "nobody will get everything he wants; we all must compromise"

  2. settle by concession

  3. expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute; "The nuclear secrets of the state were compromised by the spy"

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Wikipedia
Compromise

To compromise is to make a deal between different parties where each party gives up part of their demand. In arguments, compromise is a concept of finding agreement through communication, through a mutual acceptance of terms—often involving variations from an original goal or desires.

Extremism is often considered as antonym to compromise, which, depending on context, may be associated with concepts of balance and tolerance. In the negative connotation, compromise may be referred to as capitulation, referring to a " surrender" of objectives, principles, or material, in the process of negotiating an agreement. In human relationships, "compromise" is frequently said to be an agreement with which no party is happy because the parties involved often feel that they either gave away too much or that they received too little.

Compromise (1925 film)

Compromise ( 1925) is a silent film drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Alan Crosland. The film is now thought to be a lost film.

Usage examples of "compromise".

A compromise, that--like many other things in his life and works--between individuality and the accepted view of things, aestheticism and fashion, the critical sense and authority.

Having uttered all the necessary words of congratulation, I should like to retire to an obscure lodging-house near the Gate of Woe, a house in which some of my less presentable Algerine and Berber friends would excite no comment, whereas they might well compromise an official residence.

Most antiabortion activists, for example, have openly discouraged legislative allies from even pursuing those compromise measures that would have significantly reduced the incidence of the procedure popularly known as partial-birth abortion, because the image the procedure evokes in the mind of the public has helped them win converts to their position.

Nor would Areopagus or Akropolis be puzzled so much had St Paul preached to them the modern European Christianity with its complicated spirit of all kinds of compromises with Heaven and Hell, compromise with the State, Plutocracy, Nationalism, Imperialism, Conquest, War, Diplomacy, Secular Philosophy, Secular Science, Agnostic Parliaments, Tribal Chauvinism, Education, Officialism, Bureaucracy, etc.

The same attitude was preserved at the Diet of Augsburg, where the Lutherans were careful to avoid all appearance of friendship with the Zwinglians lest they should compromise their standing with the Catholics.

The Peace of Augsburg, like the Missouri Compromise, only postponed civil war and the radical solution of a pressing problem.

He had been amused to note that there was a night not long after the night of Optol when he had urged her to abstain from further indulgence in a certain diversion that had no name that anyone used, an Avernian pleasure the penalties against which were so severe that one would not compromise himself so far as admitting that he knew it existed and was practiced.

But, Bardo reasoned, if exceptions in custom could be made for an archaic Jew, he could certainly arrange a compromise with a wild boy who believed that a stupid white bird could hold half of his soul.

In the end a compromise had been reached, engineered by the diplomatic Janet: why not let his coat grow out all over, but then keep it short to somethin1c, like Bedlington terrier length?

I itched to throw a bootjack at him, but compromised on doing a little growling myself.

When, as the new season got under way, he continued, reluctantly, to decline any and all invitations, even one so little compromising as to accept a drink and stop to chat with a boxholder during one of the duller ensembles, when drinks and chat were the order of the day, Mr.

A compromise was proposed: Morgenthau would get Castellano, and Maloney could keep the RICO charges.

I finally compromised by carrying her in a covered basket a mile and a half and bestowing her upon a friend who loves cats nearly as well as I.

The computer interposed averaging algorithms, permitting the cores to compromise with one another, and gradually, after three days, an unstable equilibrium arose.

However, at each level, once the security had been breached for whatever reason -even by design - part of the secret was disclosed through declassification while the rest was dragged into a new classified project or moved to an existing one that had not been compromised.