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tradeoff

Other forms: tradeoffs

Definitions of tradeoff
  1. noun
    an exchange that occurs as a compromise
    “I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine”
    synonyms: trade-off
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    type of:
    exchange, interchange
    the act of changing one thing for another thing
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