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Conclusion vs Compromise - What's the difference?

conclusion | compromise |

As nouns the difference between conclusion and compromise

is that conclusion is the end, finish, close or last part of something while compromise is the settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.

As a verb compromise is

to bind by mutual agreement.

conclusion

Noun

(en noun)
  • The end, finish, close or last part of something.
  • * Prescott
  • A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.
  • The outcome or result of a process or act.
  • A decision reached after careful thought.
  • * Shakespeare
  • And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
    The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.
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  • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions' are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound ' conclusions . Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you geth
  • (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
  • * Addison
  • He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion .
  • (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.
  • (legal) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
  • (legal) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
  • (Wharton)

    Antonyms

    * (end) beginning, initiation, start

    Coordinate terms

    * (in logic) premise

    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 )