Compromise vs Alternative - What's the difference?
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The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
* Shakespeare
* Burke
* Hallam
A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
* Lamb
(ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
* Shakespeare
To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
* Fuller
To find a way between extremes.
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.
* Motley
To cause impairment of.
To breach (a security system).
Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities
Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle, (alternative rock)).
Other.
alternate; reciprocal
A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , XI:
One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
As nouns the difference between compromise and alternative
is that compromise is the settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions while alternative is a situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.As a verb compromise
is to bind by mutual agreement.As an adjective alternative is
relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.compromise
English
(wikipedia compromise)Noun
(en noun)- But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
- a compromise of character or right
- I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them.
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(compromis)- Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
- The controversy may easily be compromised .
- To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.
- He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.
Derived terms
* compromising (adjective )External links
* ----alternative
English
(wikipedia alternative)Adjective
(-)- an alternative proposition
- (Holland)
Derived terms
* alternative dispute resolution * alternative energy * alternative lifestyle * alternative medicine * alternative press * alternative voteNoun
(en noun)- ‘The cloister or a betrothed husband?’ I echoed—‘Is that the alternative destined for Miss Vernon?’