The word "compromises" is correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used to indicate that two parties have come to an agreement that is mutually beneficial, even if they may have had to make concessions or allowances. For example, "The two sides were able to reach a compromise that allowed both of them to get what they wanted."
Inevitable compromises in a power-sharing deal made the coalition unpopular with activists from both parties – and the Lib Dems are expected to pay a price by losing half their seats this time.
There may need to be compromises if either of the plans are to be put in force.
The wounds within local unionism are deep in Enniskillen, especially after several key Ulster Unionists defected to the DUP at the end of the 1990s in protest at the way Nobel peace prize winner David Trimble pushed the former party towards compromises with former republican enemies.
But then social institutions that work often are more or less messy compromises.
Raja Petra Kamarudin, fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, wrote on Malaysia Today, a website the Malaysian government is trying unsuccessfully to block: "Anwar has to balance the aims of the parties in his coalition, and we will see compromises being made.
Politicians from both sides are trying to represent it as a political conflict, and are trying to solve it with the usual political methods – through secret deals and shameful compromises, hypnotising rebels with the prospects of "voting" and "negotiations".
They made a beautiful film and I had to reconcile myself to the compromises that one has to make for the film industry.
At one point, the French president at the time, Nicolas Sarkozy, threatened to walk out, but compromises were found and tempers soothed.
There will be compromises, difficulties and defeats ahead.
Governments took a step back from chaos in the climate change discussions in Lima and found a way forward on Sunday, albeit with some fudges and compromises, giving themselves just 12 months to finalise a crucial international agreement to avoid dangerous levels of global warming.
Repealing the Human Rights Act or even quitting the convention it codifies seemed a cunning distraction from the messy compromises to come with the EU.
