trade-off
an exchange or compromise
TRANSLATION
trade-off = Abtausch, Abwägung, Kompromiss (woerterbuch.de) --- GOOGLE INDEX trade-off, tradeoff: approximately 20,000,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Nokia Chief Operating Office Ollila said the TRADE-OFF between profits and market share was crucial to achieve critical mass and reiterated Nokia's ambition to regain 40 percent of the handset market.
(adapted from PC Magazine)
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Where some experts see opportunity however, others see a TRADE-OFF resulting in fewer choices and a new set of risks.
(Network World)
(adapted from PC Magazine)
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Where some experts see opportunity however, others see a TRADE-OFF resulting in fewer choices and a new set of risks.
(Network World)
Did you
know?
trade-off, tradeoff
noun
- a situation in which you balance two opposing situations or qualities
- a situation in which you accept something bad in order to have something good
(Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology says the word trade was introduced around 1375 and originally meant path, track, course of action. It was borrowed from the Middle Dutch or Middle Low German trade, meaning track (probably as in a trading ship).
Trade is cognate with Old Saxon trada (footstep, track), Old High German trata (track, way, passage) and Old English tredan (tread). The sense of buying and selling was first recorded in 1570. The first use of trade-off to mean sacrificing one benefit for another was verified in 1961.
Trade-offs happen every day, be it at home or at work. For instance, there is a trade-off between doing a job accurately and doing it quickly.
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SYNONYMS
compromise, eye for an eye, give and take, happy medium, quid pro quo, tit for tat
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"The trade-off with this new promotion is that I will be spending more time on the road and less time at home."
noun
- a situation in which you balance two opposing situations or qualities
- a situation in which you accept something bad in order to have something good
(Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology says the word trade was introduced around 1375 and originally meant path, track, course of action. It was borrowed from the Middle Dutch or Middle Low German trade, meaning track (probably as in a trading ship).
Trade is cognate with Old Saxon trada (footstep, track), Old High German trata (track, way, passage) and Old English tredan (tread). The sense of buying and selling was first recorded in 1570. The first use of trade-off to mean sacrificing one benefit for another was verified in 1961.
Trade-offs happen every day, be it at home or at work. For instance, there is a trade-off between doing a job accurately and doing it quickly.
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SYNONYMS
compromise, eye for an eye, give and take, happy medium, quid pro quo, tit for tat
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"The trade-off with this new promotion is that I will be spending more time on the road and less time at home."
