bring to terms

verb

To compel to accept certain conditions.

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Meanings

verbbring to terms (third-person singular simple present brings to terms, present participle bringing to terms, simple past and past participle brought to terms)

present singular third person brings to terms · participle present bringing to terms · participle past brought to terms · past brought to terms

  1. archaictransitiveTo compel to accept certain conditions.

    […] if we could have prevailed upon Spain and Prussia to have continued the war until the enemy were brought to terms […]

    1818, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England, page 1133
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