middle ground

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Noun

middle ground (countable and uncountable, plural middle grounds)

1. (idiomatic) A compromise position between extremes.

   You need to find the middle ground between the two extremes.

   • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).

2. (art, photography) The middle distance.

Translations

a compromise position between extremes

• Dutch: middenweg (nl) m, compromis (nl) n
• Persian: موضع میانه (moze'-e miyâne)
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• Polish: rozwiązanie kompromisowe, kompromis (pl)

the middle distance

• Irish: meánionad m
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• Persian: حد وسط (hadd-e vasat)