0 past simple and past participle of compromise
1 to accept that you will reduce your demands or change your opinion in order to reach an agreement with someone:
Well, you want $400 and I say $300, so let's compromise at/on $350.
Party unity is threatened when members will not compromise.
2 to allow your principles to be less strong or your standards or morals to be lower:
3 to risk having a harmful effect on something:
We would never compromise the safety of our passengers.
However, would the personal courage of individual physicians be sufficient to assure that availability of medical care would not be compromised?
The glomerular lesions and disappearance of glomeruli compromised the renal function of these animals, a fact reflected in raised serum potassium and urea concentrations.
Since in the short run capital markets remained guarded, exchange rates fundamentally fixed and monetary independence protected, the actual process of adjustment was seriously compromised.
For older freelancers, then, the occupation was found to be an increasingly strenuous and compromised endeavour, and it was undertaken for ever-diminishing returns.
Current funding for intervention services for troubled adolescents seems to have produced a horribly fractionated and compromised approach to intervention.
Various "mismatches" have compromised the fruitfulness of the exchanges, however.
He cannot write, and even speech itself is for him, as for no other character, compromised and self-evidently imperfect.
The resulting problem seemed stark, if not insurmountable: while subjugation compromised attempts at assimilation, assimilation would falter in the absence of the necessary transformation.
