common ground

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Noun

common ground (uncountable)

1. (idiomatic) A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common.

   The first thing to do is to find common ground with the person you just met.

   • 1993 October 13, Todd Pipes, “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, in Home‎, performed by Deep Blue Something, published 11 July 1995:

     You'll say, we've got nothing in common
     No common ground to start from
     And we're falling apart

   • 2025 October 11, Sylvie Kaufmann, “How domestic deadlock brought Macron back to earth”, in FT Weekend, page 9:

     On Monday, he tasked his third prime minister in 12 months, Sébastien Lecornu, to try again to find common ground between political parties dead set against doing so.

Translations

commonly held beliefs or interests — see also middle ground

Azerbaijani: ortaq mövqe, ortaq məxrəc Finnish: yhteinen pohja French: terrain d’entente (fr) m Italian: terreno d'intesa m Polish: płaszczyzna porozumienia f Portuguese: etendimento comum m Spanish: comunaleza f (desus.), comunalía (es) f (desus.)

See also

• make common cause