compromise
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
compromise
- The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second
- But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second
- A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
- 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.
- In data security, a violation of the security system such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.
- French: compromis, concession
- German: Kompromiss, Ausgleich
- Italian: compromesso
- Portuguese: meio-termo, acordo, compromisso
- Russian: компроми́сс
- Spanish: acuerdo, arreglo, (legal) convenio, avenencia, término medio
compromise (compromises, present participle compromising; past and past participle compromised)
- (ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
- To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
- The controversy may easily be compromised.
- (intransitive) To find a way between extremes.
- 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.
- (transitive) To cause impairment of.
- (transitive) To breach (a security system).
- He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.
- German: einen Kompromiss schließen, sich einigen, eine Abmachung schließen
- Italian: pattuire
- Spanish: comprometerse
- German: einen Kompromiss finden, vermitteln
- Italian: trovare un compromesso, pattuire
- Russian: идти́ на компроми́сс
- Spanish: transigir, ceder
- German: einen Kompromiss schließen, sich einigen, eine Abmachung schließen
- Italian: pattuire
- Spanish: comprometerse
- Russian: скомпромети́ровать
- French: compromettre
- German: kompromittieren
- Russian: компромети́ровать
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