Concession vs Compromise - What's the difference?
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the act of conceding, especially that of defeat
something, such as an argument, that is conceded or admitted to be wrong
(rhetoric) Admitting a point to strengthen one's overall case.
the grant of some land to be used for a specified purpose
(chiefly, US) a contract to operate a small business as a subsidiary of a larger company, or within the premises of some institution; the business itself and the space from which it operates
(Canada) In Ontario, a small road between tracts of farmland.
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).
As nouns the difference between concession and compromise
is that concession is the act of conceding, especially that of defeat while compromise is the settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.As verbs the difference between concession and compromise
is that concession is to grant or approve by means of a concession agreement while compromise is to bind by mutual agreement.concession
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* paromologia * paromologycompromise
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(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.