Usually means: Mutual agreement through mutual concessions.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word compromise:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. compromise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. compromise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compromise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compromise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compromise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Compromise, compromise: Wordnik
  7. compromise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. compromise: Wiktionary
  9. compromise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. compromise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. compromise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. compromise: Dictionary.com
  13. compromise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. compromise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Compromise (film), Compromise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Compromise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. compromise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. compromise: Rhymezone
  19. compromise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. compromise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. compromise: Free Dictionary
  22. compromise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. compromise: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. compromise: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. compromise: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. compromise: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compromise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  2. compromise: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. compromise: Political
  2. Conflict Resolution Glossary (No longer online)
  3. compromise: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compromise: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. compromise: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
noun:  A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
noun:  (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.
verb:  To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
verb:  (intransitive) To find a way between extremes.
verb:  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.
verb:  (transitive) To cause impairment of.
verb:  (transitive) To breach (a security system).

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