compromise
Forms
- Plural
- compromises
- present (v1)
- compromise
- past (v2)
- compromised
- past participle (v3)
- compromised
- present participle
- compromising
- 3rd person singular
- compromises
Definitions
1.The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
- That's the nature of compromises. They truly satisfy no one.
- But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
- An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
2.A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
- 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.
3.A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.
1.To bind by mutual agreement.
- Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
- In all the flutter of peace talk, a public desire to be done with war, and a readiness to compromise through mediation, was revealed.
2.To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
- The controversy may easily be compromised.
3.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.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4144
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle French compromis, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin compromissum (“a compromise, originally a mutual promise to refer to arbitration”), prop.