as in exchange
a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another
a trade-off in which a company got a celebrity spokesperson and a fading star got some much-needed cash
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Recent Examples of trade-off
The specifics of Mexico's situation make this trade-off even more stark, experts say.
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Arkansas Online, 2 June 2025
However, further analysis revealed a critical trade-off: Reliance on AI systems for brainstorming significantly reduced the diversity of ideas produced, which is a crucial element for creative breakthroughs.
—Wolfgang Messner, The Conversation, 2 June 2025
There’s always a trade-off between aisle seats and window seats.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
The trade-off is the stress in Vancouver about what Hughes will choose to do when his contract expires, and the Avalanche having to trade away Mikko Rantanen in anticipation of Makar’s next contract.
—Arpon Basu, New York Times, 31 May 2025
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Arkansas Online, 2 June 2025
However, further analysis revealed a critical trade-off: Reliance on AI systems for brainstorming significantly reduced the diversity of ideas produced, which is a crucial element for creative breakthroughs.
—Wolfgang Messner, The Conversation, 2 June 2025
There’s always a trade-off between aisle seats and window seats.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
The trade-off is the stress in Vancouver about what Hughes will choose to do when his contract expires, and the Avalanche having to trade away Mikko Rantanen in anticipation of Makar’s next contract.
—Arpon Basu, New York Times, 31 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trade-off
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On Thursday, Lurie announced on social media that cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is opening an office in San Francisco after leaving the city four years ago.—
Wendy Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2025
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The very principle of financialization rules even the most mundane exchange of objects in the same manner that the most banal exchange of economic investment and speculation regulates the sign of spiritual autonomy and utopian aspirations that abstraction had initially promised.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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