compromiser

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person willing or able to settle a disagreement through mutual concessions

   As a patient compromiser, she found terms that both factions could accept.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who sacrifices a principle or standard for convenience or agreement

   His critics called him a compromiser who abandoned the original reform.

Formed from compromise + the agent suffix -er. Compromise entered English through French and Latin compromissum, a mutual promise to submit a dispute to arbitration; compromiser can therefore be approving or critical depending on what is conceded.

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