Associations to the word «Tradeoff»

Wiktionary

TRADEOFF, noun. An advantage or improvement that necessitates the corresponding loss or degradation of something else.

Dictionary definition

TRADEOFF, noun. An exchange that occurs as a compromise; "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine".

Wise words

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Noam Chomsky