Compromisename

• 1

  A township in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

compromisenoun/ˈkɒmpɹəˌmaɪz/

• 1

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

  • 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.
• 2

  A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.

  • 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.
• 3

  A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.

compromiseverb/ˈkɒmpɹəˌmaɪz/

• 1

  To bind by mutual agreement.

  • Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
  • In all the flutter of peace talk, a public desire to be done with war, and a readiness to compromise through mediation, was revealed.
• 2

  To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.

  • The controversy may easily be compromised.
• 3

  To find a way between extremes.

• 4

  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.

  • to pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances
• 5

  To cause impairment of.

• 6

  To illegally expose.

  • He compromised dozens of United States Government classified documents […]
• 7

  To breach (a security system).

  • They tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.