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trade-off
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun trade-off has 1 sense
- trade-off(n = noun.act) tradeoff - an exchange that occurs as a compromise; "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine" is a kind of exchange, interchange
CIDE DICTIONARY
trade-off, n.
- the exchange of one thing (object, right, opportunity) for another of approximately equal value, so as to seal a bargain, or effect a compromise. [PJC]
- the giving up of one desired objective in order to attain another, when both cannot be achieved at the same time; as, the factory workers viewed the trade-off of air quality for jobs as a necessary evil. [PJC]
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