trade-off
Example Sentences
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That figure likely reflects reasonable trade-offs students make while managing their time and energy.
The risk of such a trade-off would be profound.
The devices come with a trade-off: When companies store our footage, we don’t always have control over how it’s used or shared.
Medicare Advantage plans offer extra benefits such as vision and dental coverage, but those come with the trade-off of a limited choice of doctors and requirements for specialist referrals.
From MarketWatch
"A broad traffic light assessment of the public finances would make governments' multiple objectives – and the associated trade-offs faced – much more transparent and explicit," she said.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
