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View synonyms for settle for

settle for

verb

  1. intr, preposition to accept or agree to in spite of dispute or dissatisfaction
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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]
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Example Sentences

Melissa Courtney-Bryant had to settle for second place in the women's 3,000m after being pipped on the line by Ireland's Sarah Healy.

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All of those massive nights against heavy-hitters in Europe and they had to settle for second place in the Scottish Premiership to Ange Postecoglou's new Celtic team.

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Ultimately, Barry Ferguson's side had to settle for a Vaclav Cerny double to add to Dessers' early opener.

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But the character is repellent even to her family, who refuses to warm to her even when she tries to win their sympathy with an awkward monologue about how her own father trained her to settle for slop.

"When I was saying 'well, look, maybe we should settle for three months', he was saying 'well, why would we do that if the first independent tribunal found it was no ban at all, why would I accept three months now?',"

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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