0 a state or way of doing something that avoids being extreme, often combining the best of two opposite states or ways of doing something:
1 a way of acting or thinking that avoids being extreme and that is acceptable to everyone:
Somewhere in the debate over immigration, there has to be a happy medium.
New course economics meant a new academic regime striking a happy medium between the ideological and the practical needs of the political authority in another respect.
Wherever we can, we have to strike a happy medium.
Many of those working part-time perceived it as a happy medium, where they were having 'the best of both worlds'.
It is very difficult, however, to find a happy medium while making the book relevant to a broad readership.
British body occupies the happy medium.
I have not yet heard this aspect mentioned here, and it should actually help us find a happy medium.
There is a happy medium and a balance between both, which must be maintained.
There seems to be no happy medium between the two.
