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trade-off

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trade·off or trade-off  (trdôf, -f)
n.
An exchange of one thing in return for another, especially relinquishment of one benefit or advantage for another regarded as more desirable: "a fundamental trade-off between capitalist prosperity and economic security" (David A. Stockman).

trade-off
n
an exchange, esp as a compromise
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Noun1.trade-off - an exchange that occurs as a compromisetrade-off - an exchange that occurs as a compromise; "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine"
exchange, interchange - the act of changing one thing for another thing; "Adam was promised immortality in exchange for his disobedience"; "there was an interchange of prisoners"
Translations
trade-off [ˈtreɪdɒf] N there is always a trade-off between risk and returnsiempre existe un elemento de compensación entre el riesgo y las ganancias
trade-off [ˈtreɪdˌɒf] n (exchange) → scambio; (balancing) → compromesso


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Even minimally meeting its goals delves deeply into the trade-off zone.
He proposes that this efficiency-thoroughness trade-off (ETTO) may lead to adverse outcomes, but that it leads to the same processes that produce successes.
A recent Editorial in Australian Journal of Physiotherapy declared that the benefit-harm trade-off method (Barrett et al 2005) was a 'clearly superior' approach to determine whether effects of an intervention were clinically important (Ferreira and Herbert 2008).
 
 
 
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