trade-off

See also: tradeoff

English

Alternative forms

• tradeoff

Etymology

Deverbal from trade off.

Pronunciation

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Noun

trade-off (plural trade-offs)

1. Any situation in which the quality or quantity of one thing must be decreased for another to be increased.

   In writing, there's often a trade-off between being concise and being complete.

   • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1]:

     Individual episodes are still thrilling and often quite striking, give or take some pitch-black battle scenes. But the gradual ramping up of the plotting that has grown steadily in the past three seasons crossed some invisible Maginot line this year, where the formerly acceptable trade-offs of focus for fun are no longer quite so taken for granted.

Synonyms

• compromise

Translations

situation in which one thing must be decreased for another to be increased

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 折衷 (zh) (zhézhōng), 妥協／妥协 (zh) (tuǒxié), 取舍 (zh) (qǔshě)

• Dutch: compromis (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kompromissi (fi), valinta (fi), vaihtokauppa (fi)
• French: compromis (fr)
• German: Kompromiss (de) m, Trade-off m, Ausgleich (de) m, Abwägung (de) f, Zielkonflikt m
• Greek: αντιστάθμιση (el) f (antistáthmisi), αντιστάθμισμα (el) n (antistáthmisma)
• Hungarian: kompromisszum (hu)
• Icelandic: fórnarkostir m pl, fórnarskipti n pl
• Japanese: トレードオフ (ja) (torēdoofu), 妥協 (ja) (だきょう, dakyō)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: компромис m (kompromis)
• Polish: kompromis (pl) m
• Portuguese: contraparte (pt), dilema (pt)
• Romanian: compromis (ro) n
• Russian: компроми́сс (ru) m (kompromíss)
• Serbo-Croatian: kompromis (sh) m
• Spanish: dilema (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

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