Dictionary

settle for en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable.
   • As the game entered three minutes of stoppage time, both sides almost snatched the win. Substitute Admir Mehmedi was inches away with Hart beaten and Stewart Downing, on for Walcott, shot weakly into the side-netting with the last kick of the game as England had to settle for a point. 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC:
   • He couldn't afford the expensive headphones, so he decided to settle for the lower-quality set.

Forms

Synonyms

make do

Translations (17)

pl poprzestać (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · hu megelégszik (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · fi tyytyä (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · pl zadowolić się (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · hu beéri (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · es resignarse con (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · es conformarse con (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · pl poprzestawać (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · pl obywać się (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · pl obyć się (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · pl ograniczyć się do (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · de sich mit etwas zufriedengeben (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · pl ograniczać się do (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · pl zadowalać się (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · es complacerse son (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · it accontentarsi (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable) · es contentarse con (to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable)