compromise

Meanings

1. The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
2. A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
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.

1. To bind by mutual agreement.
2. To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
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.
5. To cause impairment of.
6. To breach (a security system).

1. A township in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

Etymology

From Middle French compromis, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin compromissum (“a compromise, originally a mutual promise to refer to arbitration”), prop. neuter of Latin compromissus, past participle of compromittere (“to make a mutual promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter”), from com- (“together”) + promittere (“to promise”); see promise.