/?tre?d??f/abalancingof twoopposingsituationsorqualities, both of which aredesired:The tradeoff in ademocracyis betweenindividuallibertyand anorderlysociety.A tradeoff is also asituationin which theachievingof something youwantinvolvesthelossof somethingelsewhich is alsodesirable, but less so:They both hadsuccessfulcareers, but the tradeoff was theyseldomsaweach other.(Definition oftradeofffrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftradeoff
tradeoffThis approach will identify the tradeoffs that exist between the level of accuracy obtained and the costs of undertaking each method.From theCambridge English CorpusA genetic constraint should be understood as a selectivetradeoffbetween the new mutation and the existing genome.From theCambridge English CorpusThe article concludes that even partial cost-benefit analysis can yield valuable insights regarding protected areas costs, benefits and tradeoffs.From theCambridge English CorpusAlthough increasing plan generosity and enhancing plan communication can significantly boost employees' appreciation of their retirement programs, there is atradeoffto consider.From theCambridge English CorpusFor a given level of consumption, thetradeofffor increasing contributions is a reduction in conventional saving.From theCambridge English CorpusHere, it is recommended to determine appropriate densities to achieve atradeoffbetween accuracy and computational effort.From theCambridge English CorpusThis is the key parameter that generates atradeoffbetween cross-sectional estimation and dynamic simulation.From theCambridge English CorpusThe result is the classictradeoffbetween environmental quality and economic welfare.From theCambridge English CorpusFirst, attention to temporality can more accurately capture the tradeoffs that governments confront and dramatically reframe the comparative puzzles demanding explanation.From theCambridge English CorpusAnother insight of this study is that thetradeoffbetween the specialization and duplication effects can vary along the process of economic development.From theCambridge English CorpusThetradeoffbetween efficiency gains and democratic decline can then be effectively managed.From theCambridge English CorpusThetradeoffallows counterfactual paths with a lower likelihood of the business-cycle index remaining fixed, rather than allowing variation in the counterfactual business-cycle index.From theCambridge English CorpusSome interesting and sometimes counter-intuitive results emerge, involving tradeoffs among economic growth, environmental harm, and social impacts.From theCambridge English CorpusSecondly, we can consider the small number of arguments about policy making that do conceive of it as an intertemporaltradeoff.From theCambridge English CorpusTo capture all the acceptable tradeoffs in constraint domination would require a great many locally conjoined constraints, which would complicate the system too much.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/tradeoff##
