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Definition of Capitulation

Capitulation

  1. A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
  2. The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms.
  3. The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.

Capitulation Quotations

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.
Mitch McConnell

Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
C. L. R. James

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
Jalal Talabani

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
Ehud Barak

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
Emanuel Cleaver
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Capitulation Translations

capitulation in German is Kapitulation

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