Synonym: adjust, concede, settle, yield. Similar words: promising, comprise, prominent, prompt, premise, economist, improved, comprehension. Meaning: ['kɒmprəmaɪz] n. 1. a middle way between two extremes 2. an accommodation in which both sides make concessions. v. 1. make a compromise; arrive at a compromise 2. settle by concession 3. expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute.
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151. You do have to compromise a fair bit and I suppose that I would like more freedom than I've got.
152. The five had always perhaps accepted the necessity of compromise.
153. At a 12-hour meeting that ended early on March 21st, they found a compromise.
154. He denounced democracy as a psychopathic expression of inferiority and compromise as an aberration that must be crushed out of existence.
155. Yaki had tried to broker a compromise earlier this year to keep the initiative off the ballot.
156. In actual fact, coil-tap not withstanding, the sounds produced are a sort of sit-on-the-fence compromise between the two.
157. So averaging two adjacent lines, then using the averaged line twice(sentencedict.com), is an acceptable compromise.
158. The Minnesota bill, a political compromise, is only a pilot program.
159. Needlers has come up with a good compromise with the introduction of its New Energy Bar.
160. It is a compromise solution which leaves the best-execution pillar swaying precariously.
161. This solution represents the best compromise between information from each of the knowledge sources.
162. And this means that the easy compromise position is unavailable.
163. But a day after the blow-up, the committee assigned to seek a compromise won a three-month reprieve.
164. A suitable compromise is for completion to be conditional on the results of an environmental audit.
165. The latter tend to be less emotive and are more amenable to compromise.
166. If they compromise in very small amounts they will become a stronger and bigger band.
167. This improves the flow of gases, but also increases noise,[sentencedict.com] so the firm must find a compromise.
168. Thus, it stands in an interim, compromise position along the road to social transformation.
169. This way of looking at causal laws is a delicate compromise.
170. He finally arrived at a compromise with her, which was that he could have three independent, non-civil servant, advisers.
171. No single product completely satisfies these requirements so the use of any particular agent is always a compromise.
172. So companies have to compromise between the number of signals they transmit, and the bandwidth of each signal.
173. So in some cases a compromise must be made, although this should not substantially alter the overall effect of formality.
174. In honest, carefully done scientific work, there is no compromise on stringent requirements for the conduct and interpretation of research.
175. If Congress and the administration are to avoid a head-on clash, and a presidential veto, a compromise must be struck.
176. This device might provide the basis of a compromise solution.
177. This kind of compromise, we confess, raises as many questions as it answers.
178. Gordon explained that I would be permitted to remain under a set of conditions that obviously represented an uneasy compromise.
179. The tragedy of 1914 was that neither side could accept this obvious compromise because neither could sell it to their own followers.
180. We would prefer either of the alternative solutions to the checkerboard compromise.
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