Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An exchange of one thing in return for another, especially relinquishment of one benefit or advantage for another regarded as more desirable: "a fundamental trade-off between capitalist prosperity and economic security” ( David A. Stockman).
Wiktionary
- n. An advantage or improvement that necessitates the corresponding loss or degradation of something else.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
- n. the giving up of one desired objective in order to attain another, when both cannot be achieved at the same time.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an exchange that occurs as a compromise
- n. an exchange that occurs as a compromise
Examples
“The tradeoff is 20% of the nations electricity with ZEEERO greenhouse gases produced.”
“The tradeoff is that women will never reach positions of power in religious societies.”
“Investment professionals can argue about whether this benign risk-reward tradeoff is reality or illusion.”
“The tradeoff is certainly worth it in terms of extra votes they will get.”
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“But that tradeoff is kinda hard to explain to Rabble — some of whom have children, spouses and parents actually serving in the military. joe from Lowell says:”
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“So, to bring it back to California, it's important that opponents of Prop. 19 at least be intellectually honest: By opposing the initiative for whatever reasons one has, the tradeoff is that more than 60,000 people will continue to be cited for marijuana offenses every year in California.”
“The tradeoff is higher fuel consumption, which is still cheaper than a transmission rebuild (see Chapter 6).”
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“More interestingly, the tradeoff is not inherent to databases but the result of a longstanding unsolved algorithm problem in computer science — the MapReduce/SQL dichotomy is the result of workaround hacks.”
“Logo labels are simple, useful, widely adopted; tradeoff is regulatory effect — tend to be relatively weak, sticky standards that are difficult to supplement.”
“The tradeoff is this: how much economic growth and income should we forego in order to achieve the kind of redistribution Pearlstein prefers.”
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