Usually means: Exchange one benefit for another.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word trade off:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. trade off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trade-off, trade off: Merriam-Webster
  3. trade-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trade-off, trade-off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. trade-off: Vocabulary.com
  6. Trade-Off, Trade-off, trade-off: Wordnik
  7. trade-off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. trade-off: Wiktionary
  9. trade-off: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. trade-off: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. trade-off, trade off: Dictionary.com
  12. trade-off: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Trade-off, Trade off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. trade-off: Rhymezone
  15. trade-off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. trade-off: FreeDictionary.org
  17. trade-off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Trade off, trade-off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Trade-Off: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  3. Trade-off: Management Dictionary
  4. trade-off, trade off: Legal dictionary
  5. Trade off: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Trade-off: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Trade off: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trade off: Idioms

(Note: See trade-off as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (trade off)

verb:  (transitive, with for) To choose (something) in exchange for something else, where having both at once is not an available option.
verb:  (intransitive, with between or among) To choose among options, where having them all at once is not an available option.

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