tradeoff

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.

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tradeoff - an exchange that occurs as a compromise; "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine" trade-off 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"