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Agree vs Compromise - What's the difference?

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In intransitive terms the difference between agree and compromise

is that agree is to suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well while compromise is to find a way between extremes.

As a noun compromise is

the settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.

agree

English

Verb

  • To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.
    • all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594
    • , author=Thomas Lodge , title=The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla , page=46 , passage=You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree .}}
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare
    • If music and sweet poetry agree .
  • * (rfdate) Mark xiv. 56.
    • Their witness agreed not together.
  • * (rfdate) Sir T. Browne
    • The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
  • To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.
    • to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
  • (transitive, UK, Irish) To yield assent to; to approve.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1666
    • , author=Samuel Pepys , title=The Diary of Samuel Pepys , page=88 , passage=... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ...}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2005
    • , author=Paddy McNutt , title=Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective , page=59 , passage=The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.}}
  • * 2011 April 3, John Burke, in The Sunday Business Post :
    • Bishops agree sex abuse rules
  • To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
  • * (rfdate) Matt. v. 25.
    • Agree with thine adversary quickly.
  • * (rfdate) Matt. xx. 13.
    • Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ?
  • To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
    • the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
  • To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
    • the same food does not agree with every constitution.
  • (grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.
  • (legal) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * The transitive usage could be considered as just an omission of to'' or ''upon . * US and Canadian English do not use the transitive form. Thus "they agreed on a price" or "they agreed to the conditions" are used in North America but not "they agreed a price" or "they agreed the conditions".

    Synonyms

    * assent, concur, consent, acquiesce, accede, engage, promise, stipulate, contract, bargain, correspond, harmonize, fit, tally, coincide, comport

    Antonyms

    * disagree

    Derived terms

    * disagree * disagreement

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    compromise

    English

    (wikipedia 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.

    Related terms

    * promise

    External links

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    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 )

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