trade-offs

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˈtreɪˌdɔfs/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    A situation requiring a choice between two or more desirable or undesirable options, where achieving one requires giving up some benefit of the other.; The act of sacrificing essential needs or goods to meet unavoidable financial obligations.; In technical fields, balancing competing requirements or parameters to optimize a system.

💬 Examples

  1. Choosing a career involves trade-offs between salary and happiness.

  2. Families often face difficult trade-offs between food and housing costs.

  3. Engineers manage trade-offs between speed and accuracy in software design.