| 单词 |
compromiser |
| 释义 |
ˈcompromiser [f. as prec. + -er1.] †1. One who acts as arbiter in a dispute. Obs.
1598Florio, Mezzanaro, a mediatour, an vmpier, an arbitrator, a compromiser. a1654Webster & Rowley Cure for Cuckold iv. i, My brother, and the other compromiser, come to take up the business. 2. One who enters into a compromise; an advocate of compromise or partial concession.
1818Todd, Compromiser, he who makes concession. 1835Tait's Mag. II. 769 All others are temporizers, waiters upon occasion and opportunity, compromisers, oscillators. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 216 Perhaps the compromiser shrinks..because he thinks the time has not yet come. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. 75 The Minister who had seemed a daring Reformer to one generation might seem but a chilly compromiser to another. |

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