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trade-off Definition

☆ trade·-off (trād′ôf′)

noun

an exchange; esp., a giving up of one benefit, advantage, etc. in order to gain another regarded as more desirable
also written tradeoff trade′·off′
trade-off Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • involve: The details of the pricing will involve many trade-offs.
  • associate: Trade-off associated with selection for increased ability to resist parasitoid attack in Drosophila melanogaster.
  • face: In other words, East Asian producers face a trade-off.
  • highlight: This analysis highlights the trade-offs involved in various strategies available for restructuring the present system.
  • explore: Their enquiries were designed to describe the devices used to achieve efficiencies, in the process exploring trade-offs between efficiency and effectiveness.
  • understand: Understanding these trade-offs will also help us comprehend why community knowledge does not develop and / or does not enhance collaborative tasks.

Adjective modifier

  • inevitable: Hence there was an inevitable trade-off between these two factors in choosing our study reef.
  • acceptable: Mitigation banking is only suitable for systems which have been shown to be replaceable, or for which acceptable trade-offs can be agreed.
  • reasonable: It is a reasonable trade-off, agrees the Green Party's Dr. Richard Lawson.
  • difficult: And there's a trade-off, which is a very difficult trade-off to confront.
  • overall: Hint categories include controls for rendering quality and overall time/quality trade-off in the rendering process.
  • necessary: Could it be that vicarious display is the necessary trade-off for repressed behavior?

Modifies a noun

  • analysis: Participants will also learn how to select suitable technologies and architectures for their solution, based on trade-off analysis.

Preposition: between

  • inflation: Mankiw has had an abiding intellectual fascination with A W Phillips '1958 postulation of a trade-off between wage inflation and unemployment.
  • unemployment: To follow these we examine the Phillips Curve ( the trade-off between unemployment and inflation ).
  • accuracy: So some trade-off between accuracy and speed of presentation is required.
  • efficiency: Trade-Offs Between Efficiency And Equity There is often a trade-off between economic efficiency and equity.
  • objective: In feng shui often there is a trade-off between objectives.
  • speed: Clearly, there is a trade-off between the speed of the process and its cost.

Noun used with modifier

  • time/quality: Hint categories include controls for rendering quality and overall time/quality trade-off in the rendering process.