B2 an agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demands or change their opinion in order to agree:
In a compromise between management and unions, a four percent pay rise was agreed in return for an increase in productivity.
The government has said that there will be no compromise with terrorists.
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- The talks are aiming at a compromise.
- The leader's aggressive stance seems to have foreclosed any chance of diplomatic compromise.
- I'm hopeful that we can reach a compromise.
- Negotiations are a two-way thing - both sides have to come to a compromise.
- A compromise has to be reached between all the powerful vested interests before any restoration work in the city can take place.
compromise verb (AGREEMENT)
B2 [ I ] to accept that you will reduce your demands or change your opinion in order to reach an agreement with someone:
Party unity is threatened when members will not compromise.
Well, you want $400 and I say $300, so let's compromise at/on $350.
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- Somebody will have to compromise if we are to break the deadlock between the two warring factions.
- The reluctance of either side to compromise means that the talks are doomed to fail.
- The antagonists in this dispute are quite unwilling to compromise.
- The dispute had reached an impasse, as neither side would compromise.
- They have become irreconcilable, with both sides refusing to compromise any further.
compromise verb (LOWER STANDARDS)
詞庫:同義詞和關聯詞
- abase
- be under a cloud idiom
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- cut sb down to size idiom
- deflate
- degrade
- dishonour
- doghouse
- exhibition
- fall from grace idiom
- forget
- in the doghouse idiom
- indignity
- knock
- knock sb off their pedestal idiom 1
- knock sb off their pedestal
- peg
- stoop to sth
compromise verb (HARM)
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- a drowning man will clutch at a straw idiom
- a leap in the dark idiom
- adventurer
- ante
- be skating on thin ice idiom
- dare
- expose
- go for broke idiom
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- hazard
- imperil
- jeopardize
- lay
- neck
- risk
- run the risk of doing sth idiom
- sail close to the wind idiom
- skate
- stick (sth) out
- stick your neck out idiom