acceptable compromise
collocation in Englishmeaningsofacceptableandcompromise
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acceptable
adjective
uk/əkˈsept.ə.bəl/us/əkˈsept.ə.bəl/
satisfactory and able to be agreed to or ...
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compromise
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈkɒm.prə.maɪz/us/ˈkɑːm.prə.maɪz/
an agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demands or change their opinion in order ...
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(Definition ofacceptableandcompromisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is anacceptablecompromise, but it does not describe the totality of their behaviour, nor (crucially) does it provide an adequate explanation for it.
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Does he think that a common age of consent of 17 years would be anacceptablecompromise?
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Of course, the putting forward of anacceptablecompromisenearly always involves the intervention of uncommitted third parties.
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The presidency undertook to seek anacceptablecompromise.
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We also have anacceptablecompromisereport before us.
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It would also allow the two authorities involved to get their heads together and perhaps reach anacceptablecompromise.
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We have sought in successive debates to try to find some reasonable andacceptablecompromisewhich can be broadly agreed.
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It is anacceptablecompromiseand the best option on offer.
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In my view, these amendments represent anacceptablecompromise.
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The figure of five would seem to be anacceptablecompromise.
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We are, in my view, presenting an honourable andacceptablecompromisebetween ecology, on the one hand, and agricultural economics, on the other.
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However, we have now arrived at a very good andacceptablecompromise.
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The draft now before you is something we regard as anacceptablecompromise.
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The figure of 147 grams is anacceptablecompromisecompared to the figures which have been mentioned.
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The text being proposed for adoption is anacceptablecompromise.
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Whilst the outcome could have been better, we voted on anacceptablecompromise.
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From that we may deduce that 80 mm panels would be anacceptablecompromisefor white fish.
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We have now reached what seems to me to be a whollyacceptablecompromise.
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It may be that in many cases anacceptablecompromiseis reached.
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But it is anacceptablecompromisebetween the conflicting wishes of creditors and debtors where there is no umpire like the trustee in bankruptcy.
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