Compromiseとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -aɪz
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmpɹəˌmaɪz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmpɹəˌmaɪz/

名詞

compromise (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 compromises)

1. The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second

     But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.

   • 1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America

     All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.

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

   a compromise of character or right

   • 1823, Charles Lamb, Modern Gallantry

     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. 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.

関連する語

• promise

Further reading

• compromise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• compromise in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

動詞

compromise (三人称単数 現在形 compromises, 現在分詞 compromising, 過去形および過去分詞形 compromised)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.

2. To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England

     The controversy may easily be compromised.

3. (intransitive) 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.
   • 1855, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic

     To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.

5. (transitive) To cause impairment of.
6. (transitive) To breach (a security system).

   He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.

同意語

• split the difference

派生語

• compromising (adjective)