TRADE-OFF

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An exchange that occurs as a compromise

Example:

I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine

Synonyms:

trade-off; tradeoff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("trade-off" is a kind of...):

exchange; interchange (the act of changing one thing for another thing)