Synonyms for tradeoff
trade·off

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1. tradeoffnoun

   Synonyms:
   compromise

2. tradeoffnoun

   An advantage or improvement that necessitates the corresponding loss or degradation of something else.

   Improved graphics at the expense of battery life was a tradeoff the designers were willing to make.

   Synonyms:
   compromise

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1. tradeoff, trade-offnoun

   an exchange that occurs as a compromise

   "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine"

   Synonyms:
   trade-off

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1. • Exchange

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1. List of paraphrases for "tradeoff":

   correlation, compromise

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How to use tradeoff in a sentence?

1. Anne Walsh:

   That is a more significant allocation limit than we would have in the open-end mutual fund, i see that tradeoff for investors who want the ETF structure as reasonable.

2. Casey Holliday:

   Dinosaurs are like modern-day birds, crocodiles and lizards in that they inherited particular joints in their skulls from fish ball and socket joints, much like peoples hip joints that seem to lend themselves, but not always, to movement like in snakes, when you put a lot of force on things, theresa tradeoff between movement and stability. Birds and lizards have more movement but less stability.

3. Russ Vought:

   I think this is the real problem with earmarks, is that earmarks take the attention away from serious policymaking and take senators and member offices and turns them into essentially pork factories where much of their time, much of their limited resources is attempting to do the paperwork and investigate these organizations that they are then going to put their names behind, and all of that comes at the opportunity tradeoff from doing real policy reforms, being policy entrepreneurs and providing real leadership on the issues of the day.

4. Brad Wilson:

   Maybe it's more costly up front to say' I'm going to do Amazon and Microsoft,' the tradeoff is, you're increasing the complexity of your operation by doing that. But maybe keeping them competing is going to provide you with benefits or saving down the road.

5. Michael Timmermann:

   The tradeoff is they are ad supported and not the most fresh content, but if you are just looking for something to watch or a movie occasionally, it will do.