Other forms: trade-offs
A trade-off is giving up some of one good thing to get another. An unavoidable trade-off.
Recognising one is the beginning of any honest argument, since pretending there is none is the commonest evasion. Every engineering decision is a trade-off between weight, cost and strength.
1nountrade-offGiving up some of one good thing to get another.
“The trade-off was speed against everything else the machine could do.”
trade-off is a compromise.
Deverbal from trade off.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Logic & Argument