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meet halfway

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meet someone halfway
Fig. to compromise with someone. No, I won't give in, but I'll meet you halfway. They settled the argument by agreeing to meet each other halfway.
See also: halfway, meet
meet somebody halfway
to show that you really want to reach an agreement or improve your relationship with someone by doing some of the things that they ask you to I really want this relationship, Simon, and I'm prepared to work at it but you have to meet me halfway.
See also: halfway, meet
meet somebody halfway
to do some of what someone asks you to do He's put forward some good proposals for settling the strike, but the other side has not been willing to meet him halfway.
Usage notes: often said about an attempt to reach an agreement about something
Related vocabulary: split the difference
See also: halfway, meet
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In order for web content writers and readers find each other, they must meet halfway through the search engines.
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The conference, which has been a necessity for some eighteen or twenty years, has curbed the hopes of the Palestinians about ending the Israeli occupation, either due to the self-centered Fatah officials, or with the aim of reaping the bitter results to slide into Arab quagmires that made Palestine's rifles drown in the mazes of the policies of some ArabsC* But the dilemma faced by the two authorities in the West Bank and Gaza is to meet halfway amidst the political programs.
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Only when both parties meet halfway will the reduction of sanctions become possible.
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