Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An exchange of one thing in return for another, especially relinquishment of one benefit or advantage for another regarded as more desirable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the exchange of one thing (object, right, opportunity) for another of approximately equal value, so as to seal a bargain, or effect a compromise.
- noun the giving up of one desired objective in order to attain another, when both cannot be achieved at the same time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An advantage or improvement that necessitates the corresponding loss or degradation of something else.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an exchange that occurs as a compromise
- noun an exchange that occurs as a compromise
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Examples
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The tradeoff is higher fuel consumption, which is still cheaper than a transmission rebuild (see Chapter 6).
The Simple Guide to Maintaining and Upgrading Truck Transmissions 2009
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More interestingly, the tradeoff is not inherent to databases but the result of a longstanding unsolved algorithm problem in computer science — the MapReduce/SQL dichotomy is the result of workaround hacks.
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The tradeoff is certainly worth it in terms of extra votes they will get.
Think Progress » As Democrats Get Tough On Financial Reform, Republicans Court Big Banks 2010
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So, to bring it back to California, it's important that opponents of Prop. 19 at least be intellectually honest: By opposing the initiative for whatever reasons one has, the tradeoff is that more than 60,000 people will continue to be cited for marijuana offenses every year in California.
Rob Kampia: If People Oppose the Marijuana Initiative in California, Are They Prohibitionists? Rob Kampia 2010
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But that tradeoff is kinda hard to explain to Rabble — some of whom have children, spouses and parents actually serving in the military. joe from Lowell says:
Matthew Yglesias » The Political Virtue of Lying and Determination 2010
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Investment professionals can argue about whether this benign risk-reward tradeoff is reality or illusion.
Retirement Policy 2009
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The tradeoff is 20% of the nations electricity with ZEEERO greenhouse gases produced.
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The tradeoff is 20% of the nations electricity with ZEEERO greenhouse gases produced.
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The tradeoff is that women will never reach positions of power in religious societies.
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So, to bring it back to California, it's important that opponents of Prop. 19 at least be intellectually honest: By opposing the initiative for whatever reasons one has, the tradeoff is that more than 60,000 people will continue to be cited for marijuana offenses every year in California.
Rob Kampia: If People Oppose the Marijuana Initiative in California, Are They Prohibitionists? Rob Kampia 2010
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