Noun: An agreement reached when each side makes concessions to settle a dispute.
Verb:
To settle a dispute through mutual concessions.
To accept standards that are lower than desirable.
Franchise
Noun:
Authorization granted by a government or company, enabling the recipient to carry out specific commercial activities (e.g., broadcasting, acting as an agent).
The right to vote.
Verb: To grant a franchise to an individual or group.
Enterprise
Noun:
A project or undertaking, typically difficult and requiring effort.
A business or company.
Symbolize
Verb:
To be a symbol of something.
To represent something using symbols.
Familiarize
Verb:
To give someone knowledge or understanding of something.
To make something better known or more easily grasped.
Alphabetize
Verb: To arrange words or phrases in alphabetical order.
Economize
Verb: To spend less; reduce expenses.
Sympathize
Verb:
To feel or express sympathy.
To agree with a sentiment or opinion.
Harmonize
Verb:
To add notes to a melody to produce harmony.
To produce a pleasing visual combination.
To make consistent or compatible.
Itemize
Verb:
To present something as a list of individual items.
To specify an individual item or items.
Visualize
Verb:
To form a mental image of something; imagine.
To make something visible to the eye.
Penalize
Verb: To subject someone to some form of punishment.
Emphasize
Verb:
To give special importance or prominence to something in speaking or writing.
To lay stress on a word or phrase when speaking.
To make something more clearly defined.
Authorize
Verb: To give official permission for or approval to an undertaking or agent.
Rationalize
Verb:
To attempt to explain or justify behavior or attitude with logical, plausible reasons, even if untrue or inappropriate.
To make a company, process, or industry more efficient, especially by dispensing with superfluous personnel or equipment.
To convert a function or expression to a rational form.
Monopolize
Verb:
(of an organization or group) To obtain exclusive possession or control of a trade, commodity, or service.
To have or take the greatest share of something.
To get or keep something exclusively to oneself.
Apologize
Verb: To express regret for something that one has done wrong.
Reorganize
Verb: To change the way in which something is organized.
Standardize
Verb:
To cause something to conform to a standard.
To adopt something as one's standard.
To determine the properties of something by comparison with a standard.