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trade-off

[ US /ˈtɹeɪˌdɔf/ ]
NOUN
  1. an exchange that occurs as a compromise
    I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine

How To Use trade-off In A Sentence

  • The line of stemware and tumblers feature a unique magnesium-based crystal that the company says eliminates the trade-off between clarity and durability in this product category.
  • The trade-off between performance, fees and illiquidity will make hedge funds much less alluring in the future. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trade-off for drivers would be the abolition of road tax and fuel duty, and more spending on the road network. Times, Sunday Times
  • The tough trade-off is not between regular troops and reservists, but between manpower and technology. Times, Sunday Times
  • Winning races, or even just getting extra hours in a day, is not a bad trade-off for a little less shut-eye, so Dr. Sleep has an interesting bargain for a tired world.
  • There is a trade-off between doing the job accurately and doing it quickly.
  • There isn't a trade-off between being good at something and being happy. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a trade-off, though, Tech College offers far fewer electives, or curricular freedom of any sort.
  • By Standard International Trade Classification the seventh kind of product " Machinery and transport equipment"(shortened form "SITC7") have been the most active products in course of trade-off.
  • As the legal escamotage of terra nullius denied the existence of Indigenous land tenure, opening up land and resources to European settlers, so cultura nullius is being used to justify government and market policy efforts to overlay our own, often foreign values and visions, on those that are rhetorically effaced and trade-off one cultural body of knowledge, skills, practices and values for another. Culture Matters
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