trade-off
IPA: trˈeɪdɔf
noun
- Any situation in which the quality or quantity of one thing must be decreased for another to be increased.
tradeoff
IPA: trˈeɪdɔf
noun
- An advantage or improvement that necessitates the corresponding loss or degradation of something else.
trade off
IPA: trˈeɪdɔf
verb
- (transitive, with for) To choose (something) in exchange for something else, where having both at once is not an available option.
- (intransitive, with between or among) To choose among options, where having them all at once is not an available option.
Examples of "trade-off" in Sentences
- "That may have been his personal Faustian trade-off."
- He said there was no long-term trade-off between growth and austerity.
- That's the trade-off for protecting their exporters by slowing the currency's rise, he said.
- The confiscation idea raises in stark terms the trade-off between tax increases and economic growth.
- Cost issues aside, having to cut back on storage is a trade-off I'm willing to make when I'm on the road.
- He says he sees “no real trade-off” between volunteerism in the community and the demands of his religious obligations.
- Rather than fight that trade-off, libertarian/conservatives should fight to ensure that people are free to choose a minimalist coverage plan.
- Did the Chinese agree to the suspension, and was it a temporary trade-off because China wants to ensure the strategically more important oil and gas pipelines?
- Black Protestants uniquely combine individualistic piety with communal identity, the two ways in which religion shapes political activism.21 In other religious traditions, we generally see a trade-off between these two.
- Sure, perhaps the insurance companies would have to take a cut out of the profits that they provide to shareholders (and lower their exorbitant CEO salaries) – but really, I think this is a fair trade-off for the insurance companies who have been skimping on coverage to maximize profits for decades.
Examples of "tradeoff" in Sentences
- But it seems the best tradeoff to me.
- But the tradeoff is very disproportionate.
- Negotiating the tradeoff is where it's at.
- Tradeoffs of the Computer Appliance Approach.
- That's not a bad tradeoff at the end of the day.
- The tradeoff between two countries was successful.
- So the tradeoff is in favor of my version of indexing.
- I think the tradeoff is worth it for the versatility gained.
- It is a tradeoff between the risk and the cost of mitigating that risk.
- The tradeoff is certainly worth it in terms of extra votes they will get.
- The sensitivity is less but this is a tradeoff for simplicity in the gas supply.
- 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 higher fuel consumption, which is still cheaper than a transmission rebuild (see Chapter 6).
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.