What is the difference between "Compromise" and "Adjustments"?

When you start googling today to find the difference between these two terms most of the results turns out stating that both these words are the same. Recently i started asking couple of my friends, relatives, and some strangers what the difference is, see below some of their strange answers and some good answers,


a) "Compromise is where both the parties agree, where adjustment is only one party agree"


b) "Compromise is costly than adjustment


c) "When you compromise you lose your principles, character and in adjustment you only need to react to the situation"


d) Compromises are done rarely...adjustments are done frequently. 


e) I don't do both of them. 


Well looking at all the answers, one thing comes to my mind is that people always are concerned about the diction of the words rather than the real meaning of the words. 
I do agree most of their answers are correct. 
One thing that i find in common in all the people who answered me were not able to brief the whole answer or to talk more about the answer which means they really don't interpret the meaning, rather worried about the literal sense of it.


I have a totally different dimension to the thought process, I always believe in one thing that whenever you use a word you should understand the situation and the environment of using it. Well the same word will have different meaning when used in different situation. So it is better and ideal to understand the situation and then use the words that are needed. I think i have been mentioning what others are talking about this, let me give my thoughts of interpretation of what this means, I am not sure if this interpretation is right or wrong, but this is what it is , 


Compromises are done in a professional relationships and Adjustments are done in a personal relationships.  Well Crazy isn't?


Well i think compromises are always carried out in a bandwidth with a sense of larger magnitude but adjustments are carried out in a smaller magnitude.


You can do a compromise with your boss or your subordinates or your fellow colleague, but you need to adjustments with your mom, dad, wife, sisters and brothers, sons, and daughters. 


Well what this means and what difference is when you do a compromise there are 2 basic things that goes along with it, 
1) you expect the other person also to lose a part, 
2) there is no feel of fulfillment or love in the whole process 


But at the same time when you adjust...you wholly and fully dedicate something for the other person without even knowing that what you are doing is right or wrong. 


So i think it is very simple, do adjustments at home and do compromises at office. 


Hope you enjoy reading. 


Ganesh