Meanings (ES + gloss)
acuerdo • arreglo • avenencia • concesión • convenio • transigencia • término medio
The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
comprometerse
To bind by mutual agreement.
Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
ceder • transar[se] • transigir
To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
The controversy may easily be compromised.
apeligrar
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.
to pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances
adentrarse • infringir • violar
To breach (a security system).
They tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.