compromise
IPA: kˈɑmprʌmaɪz
noun
- The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
- A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
- (computer security) 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.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
- To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
- (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.
- (transitive) To cause impairment of.
- (transitive) To breach (a security system).
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Examples of "compromise" in Sentences
- The opening antedated the compromise.
- The ambiguity is the key to compromise.
- Please leave the compromise undisturbed.
- Repeating it compromises the quality of the article.
- That is the reason for the willingness to compromise.
- Compromising the integrity compromises the protection.
- The compromise was to quote the sections in the footnotes.
- Compromising is good but not for the sake of the compromise itself.