tradeoff
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- noun
- /ˈtreɪdˌɔf/
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compromiso
- The budget cuts forced us to make a tradeoff between hiring more staff and maintaining our current services.
- cost-benefit tradeoff
- tradeoff between efficiency
- performance tradeoffs
Examples
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That's one of the tradeoffs for my comparatively low fee, though.
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But trust me, the tradeoff is worth it.
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Life is always a tradeoff.
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Guys, you know the tradeoff for three days' work is a month off your sentence.
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That's a pretty good tradeoff.
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Rather, as with all difficult policy choices, they involved painful tradeoffs that will benefit some more than others.
Academic text (1999) -
Most environmental policies, whether command-and-control or market-based, require some tradeoff between efficiency and equity.
Academic text (1992) -
When choosing a new car, I found that the tradeoff between price and features was challenging.
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In her presentation, she explained the tradeoff between environmental sustainability and economic growth.
Synonyms
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Giving up one thing to get something else when you must choose
How Significant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tradeoff comes from the parts trade ('exchange') and off ('away'), just like when you swap one thing for another. So a tradeoff is a choice where you 'give up' one good thing to get another.