Definitions for trade-off
trade-off

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tradeoff, trade-offnoun

   an exchange that occurs as a compromise

   "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trade-offnoun

   Any situation in which the quality or quantity of one thing must be decreased for another to be increased.

   In writing, there's often a trade-off between being concise and being complete.

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1. trade-off

   A trade-off refers to the potential outcome or benefit that must be given up in order to achieve or gain another desired outcome or benefit. It represents a decision-making process that involves sacrificing one option for another, often in situations where resources or capacity are limited.

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1. Trade-off

   A trade-off is a situation that involves losing one quality or aspect of something in return for gaining another quality or aspect. It often implies a decision to be made with full comprehension of both the upside and downside of a particular choice; the term is also used in an evolutionary context, in which case the selection process acts as the "decision-maker".

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of trade-off in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of trade-off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of trade-off in a Sentence

1. Michael Tanner:

   I want people to understand that there is a trade-off involved, you can have widespread care that provides benefits that are well beyond the current insurance system, but that doesn’t have co-payments or deductibles. Or you can have low cost. But you can’t have both.

2. Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin:

   The idea that there is a straight trade-off between freedoms and security is, to my mind, a bit sterile.

3. England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe:

   The implementation of the detailed reforms will inevitably throw up unforeseen effects in particular places, and where it is justified we will need to revisit issues, but we should be careful about talking about turning back the overall regulatory dial or trying to trade off the risk of financial instability for short-term growth.

4. Richard Bleicher:

   These two characteristics are usually a trade-off, false positives are not necessarily a completely bad thing.

5. Fox News ':

   What I would say going forward to Hillary is tell your brother to bug out and to find other ways to make a living other than appearing to trade off your name, it's not a political problem for Hillary. It is an appearance problem.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=trade-off
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trade-Off
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=trade-off