If you settle for something, you choose or accept it, especially when it is not what you really want but there is nothing else available.
Virginia was a perfectionist. She was just not prepared to settle for anything mediocre...
PHRASAL VERB : V P n
If you settle for something, you choose or accept it, especially when it is not what you really want but there is nothing else available.
Virginia was a perfectionist. She was just not prepared to settle for anything mediocre...
PHRASAL VERB : V P n
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне. 2006