Make mutual concessions.

Roget 774: compromise, commute, compound; take the mean; split the difference, meet one halfway, give and take; come to terms etc. (contract) 769; submit to arbitration, abide by arbitration; patch up, bridge over, arrange; straighten out, adjust, differences, agree; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; take the will for the deed.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 939: be honorable etc. adj.; deal honorably, deal squarely, deal impartially, deal fairly; speak the truth etc. (veracity) 543; draw a straight furrow; tell the truth and shame the Devil, vitam impendere vero [Lat.]; show a proper spirit, make a point of; do one's duty etc. (virtue) 944.    redeem one's pledge etc. 926; keep one's promise, be as good as one's promise, be as good as one's word; keep faith with, not fail.    give and take, audire alteram partem [Lat.], give the Devil his due, put the saddle on the right horse.    redound to one's honor.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 922: be right etc. adj.; stand to reason.    see justice done, see one righted, see fair play; do justice to; recompense etc. (reward) 973; bold the scales even, give and take; serve one right, put the saddle on the right horse; give every one his due, give the devil his due; audire alteram partem [Lat.].    deserve etc. (be entitled to) 924.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 794: barter, exchange, swap, swop^†, truck, scorse^†; interchange etc. 148; commutate etc. (substitute) 147; compound for.    trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate^†; carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade; be in business, be in the city; keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in.    trade with, deal with, have dealings with; transact business with, do business with; open an account with, keep an account with.    bargain; drive a bargain, make a bargain; negotiate, bid for; haggle, higgle^†; dicker [U.S.]; chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down; stickle, stickle for; out bid, under bid; ask, charge; strike a bargain etc. (contract) 769.    speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring; buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market, buy low and sell high; corner the market; rig the market, stag the market.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 718: retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate etc. 148; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo etc. n., give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores.    serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's own garden, catch a Tartar.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 30: make compensation; compensate, compense^†; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance^†, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize etc. 27; make good; redeem etc. (atone) 952.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 148: interchange, exchange, counterchange^†; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate etc. 718; requite.    rearrange, recombine.    ... meer laten zien

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