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Trade-off

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    an exchange that occurs as a compromise wordnet

Etymology

Deverbal from trade off.

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