Usually means: Exchange one benefit for another.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word trade-off:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. trade-off: Merriam-Webster
  2. trade-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. trade-off, trade-off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. trade-off: Vocabulary.com
  5. Trade-Off, Trade-off, trade-off: Wordnik
  6. trade-off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. trade-off: Wiktionary
  8. trade-off: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. trade-off: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. trade-off: Dictionary.com
  11. trade-off: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Trade-off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. trade-off: Rhymezone
  14. trade-off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. trade-off: FreeDictionary.org
  16. trade-off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. trade-off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Trade-Off: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  2. Trade-off: Management Dictionary
  3. trade-off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trade-off: Cybernetics and Systems

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

Similar:
concessionality, quid pro quo, counterchange, sacrifice, trade diversion, reduction, giveback, contra, substitute good, demerit good, more...

Opposite:
benefit, advantage, gain, win-win situation

Types:
zero-sum game, win-win situation, lose-lose situation, mutually exclusive, more...

Phrases:
risk-return trade-off, Trade-off theory of capital structure, more...

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Similar:
concessionality, quid pro quo, counterchange, sacrifice, trade diversion, reduction, giveback, contra, substitute good, demerit good, more...

Opposite:
benefit, advantage, gain, win-win situation

Types:
zero-sum game, win-win situation, lose-lose situation, mutually exclusive, more...

Phrases:
risk-return trade-off, Trade-off theory of capital structure, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     olive,     charcoal, more...



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