trade-off

See also: tradeoff

English

Alternative forms

• tradeoff

Noun

trade-off (plural trade-offs)

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.

Synonyms

• compromise

Translations

situation in which one thing must be decreased for another to be increased

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 折衷 (zh) (zhézhōng), 妥協 (zh), 妥协 (zh) (tuǒxié), 取舍 (zh)

• Dutch: compromis (nl) n
• Finnish: kompromissi (fi), valinta (fi)
• French: compromis (fr), trade-off (fr) m
• German: Kompromiss (de) m, Trade-off m
• Icelandic: fórnarkostir m pl, fórnarskipti n pl

• Japanese: トレードオフ (ja) (torēdoofu), 妥協 (ja) (だきょう, dakyō)
• Polish: kompromis (pl) m
• Portuguese: contraparte (pt), dilema (pt)
• Romanian: compromis (ro) n
• Russian: компроми́сс (ru) m (kompromíss)
• Serbo-Croatian: kompromis (sh) m
• Spanish: dilema (es)