Noun
The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms.
The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere 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
There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise. Salman Rushdie
We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path that will take us to the stars-unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first. Carl Sagan
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation. Emanuel Cleaver
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. George Shultz
Peace ought to be the result of a system well considered, founded on the true interests of the different countries, honorable to each, and ought not to be either a capitulation or the result of a threat. Napoleon Bonaparte