settle for

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to accept sth that is not exactly what you want but is the best that is available

In the movies · 4

• Tell me that, I'll settle for it.Heat1995
• BUT MY MUCH LARGER REGRET IS THAT WE HAVE SETTLED FOR THIS,The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz2014
• I'll settle for this — have the company commanders select one man from each company in the first wave...Paths of Glory1957
• You settle for a pee-pee touch!You Don't Mess with the Zohan2008
• Don't settle for a humdrum existence.Escape Room2019
• I'll settle for a cheesecake.Creed2015
• And I'd like her to settle for you.Crazy, Stupid, Love.2011
• I ll settle for thatThe Machinist2004

Learn it in full scenes

• Paths of Glory1957
  • Broulard Pitches the Anthill Offensive
  • Broulard Visits Dax at the Front
  • Mireau Orders Dax to Take the Anthill
• Creed2015
  • Adonis Asks Rocky to Train Him
  • Adonis and Bianca's First Date
  • Rocky Agrees to Train Adonis

From the same entry

• settle a score account
• let the dust settle
• settle down
• settle to
• settle in
• settle on
• settle on

More phrasal verbs

• fall out
• hang up on
• catch up with
• be cut out for
• sit up
• stand up to
• come together
• sit about
• go back to
• root for
• turn back
• go without