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Barter vs Compromise - What's the difference?

barter | compromise |

As nouns the difference between barter and compromise

is that barter is an equal exchange while compromise is the settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.

As verbs the difference between barter and compromise

is that barter is exchange goods or services without involving money while compromise is (ambitransitive) to bind by mutual agreement.

barter

English

(wikipedia barter)

Noun

(en noun)
  • an equal exchange
  • We had no money so we had to live by barter .

    Synonyms

    * quid pro quo * swap * swop * trade

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • exchange goods or services without involving money
  • Synonyms

    * swap * swop * trade

    compromise

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
  • * Shakespeare
  • But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
  • * Burke
  • All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
  • * Hallam
  • An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
  • A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
  • a compromise of character or right
  • * Lamb
  • 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.

    Verb

    (compromis)
  • (ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
  • To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
  • * Fuller
  • The controversy may easily be compromised .
  • 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 pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.
  • To cause impairment of.
  • To breach (a security system).
  • He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.

    Derived terms

    * compromising (adjective )