English-French translations for compromise

• compromis
  "Compromise" n'est pas une bonne traduction de "compromis". "Compromise" is not a good translation of "compromis".
  Mais un compromis est un compromis. But a compromise is a compromise.
  Le paquet de compromis demeure un compromis. The compromise package is always a compromise.
• arriver
  Pour atteindre REACH, nous avons dû arriver à un compromis. To achieve REACH we have had to arrive at a compromise.
  Il est dommage que nous n' ayons pas pu arriver à ce compromis. The great pity is that we have not arrived at such a compromise.
  Je suis persuadé qu' il est possible d' arriver à un compromis sur ce point. I think that we could well broker a compromise here.
• commettre
• compromettre
  Et on va la compromettre pour une poignée d'écus. And it is going to be compromised for a handful of ECUs.
  Enfin, l'ACTA ne doit pas compromettre l'accès aux médicaments génériques. Lastly, ACTA must not compromise access to generic medicines.
  Cela ne peut compromettre la mission historique qui nous attend. This must not be allowed to compromise the historic task which awaits us.
• compromission
  On ne peut accepter des compromissions sur les droits à l'expression des citoyens. We cannot accept dishonest compromises where the citizens' freedom of expression is concerned.
  Il est de notre devoir de ne pas faire de compromission quand il s'agit de l'implication du Parlement européen dans les négociations au sujet du cadre financier des budgets de 2013 à 2020. It is our duty not to compromise which it comes to the involvement of the European Parliament in the negotiations concerning the financial framework for the 2013 to 2020 budgets.
• concession
  Pour aboutir à un compromis, toutes les parties doivent faire des concessions. A compromise requires that all parties make concessions.
  Un compromis implique forcément des concessions. As ever, a compromise is about give and take.
  De même, les exigences élevées de notre société en termes d'hygiène ne tolèrent aucune concession dans ce domaine. Our society's high standards of hygiene must also not be compromised.
• consensus mou
• transiger
  On ne peut pas transiger sur l'égalité de traitement! Equal treatment cannot be compromised.
  On ne peut pas transiger sur l'égalité de traitement! We cannot compromise on equal treatment.
  La démocratie comporte des règles, avec lesquelles on ne peut transiger. Democracy has rules which do not allow compromises.

Definition of compromise

• The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions
• A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender
• In data security, a violation of the security system such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself
• To bind by mutual agreement
• To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound
• To find a way between extremes
• To cause impairment of

Examples

• a compromise of character or right
• He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.

Related words

• compromised
• immunocompromised
• compromiser
• a bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit