Compromise

Russian Meaning

компромисс

компромиссный

компрометировать

идти на компромисс

подвергать риску

подвергать опасности

English Meaning

  1. A settlement of differences in which each side makes concessions.
  2. The result of such a settlement.
  3. Something that combines qualities or elements of different things: The incongruous design is a compromise between high tech and early American.
  4. A concession to something detrimental or pejorative: a compromise of morality.
  5. To arrive at a settlement by making concessions.
  6. To reduce the quality, value, or degree of something.
  7. To expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute: a secret mission that was compromised and had to be abandoned; compromise one's standing in the community.
  8. To reduce in quality, value, or degree; weaken or lower.
  9. To impair by disease or injury: an immune system that was compromised by a virus.
  10. To settle by mutual concessions: a dispute that was compromised.