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settle for
verb
- intr, preposition to accept or agree to in spite of dispute or dissatisfaction
Idioms and Phrases
Accept or be satisfied with as a compromise, as in He really wanted a bigger raise but decided to settle for what they offered . [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
The two-time champion's first real mistake of the day came when he lipped out from seven feet on the 13th and had to settle for a par.
And essentially so were the Lakers, headed to a 136-120 loss and forced to settle for a split.
So Ruffin and Meyers had to settle for the “Late Night†audience.
Abrams signed up with a San Francisco lawyer and was one of thousands who lodged claims against PG&E. But he grew frustrated by the 2019 plan to settle for $13.5 billion with a mix of cash and PG&E stock held in trust, which Watts helped negotiate and lobbied victims to approve.
After a botched fireworks detonation in 2021 that the city had to settle for more than $21 million, authorities took no chances with the situation in Pacoima on Friday and evacuated the surrounding area.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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