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trade-off

 

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Noun trade-off has 1 sense
  1. tradeoff, trade-off - an exchange that occurs as a compromise; "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine"
    --1 is a kind of exchange

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Trade off

Noun: a situation in which you have to choose between two things, and if you choose one, you cannot have the other.

Example sentence: In the business world, there is often a trade off between increasing production and maintaining quality.


Verb: to exchange or give up one thing for another.

Example sentence: He decided to trade off his free time for extra income by working two jobs.


Adjective: involving or characterized by a trade off.

Example sentence: The smartphone's affordable price is a trade-off for its limited storage capacity.


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