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compromise

Definition for compromise

verb as in put in jeopardy

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Example Sentences

It describes situations where the support provided was "inadequate" and midwives felt "professionally compromised" because of a staffing shortfall:

From BBC

Dispiriting, because all of the disappointments and ugly compromises of retail politics are in full view.

Trying to find compromise when the other side views politics and political life and society as a zero-sum game and in doing so rejects democracy and pluralism is an act of surrender.

From Salon

The team’s struggles trying to find the right compromise was a guaranteed challenge, the early-season buy-in and execution were sure to suffer once old habits resurfaced.

The Housing Department has settled on a good compromise: setting a new maximum allowable rent increase of 5% and a new guaranteed minimum of 2%.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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