Verb
make terms (third-person singular simple present makes terms, present participle making terms, simple past and past participle made terms)
To reach a state of agreement or compromise; come to terms.
A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. Robert Penn Warren
Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, "You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?" No one! Not even God! So gentlemen, I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then - No! I will not recant. Morris West
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with. Lou Harrison
I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then - No! I will not recant. Morris West
The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II