Associations to the word «Tradeoff»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

TRADEOFF, noun. An exchange that occurs as a compromise; "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope