If you trade off one thing against another, you exchange all or part of one thing for another, as part of a negotiation or compromise. They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling There is a possibility of being able to trade off information for a reduced sentence. see also trade-off
a management decision whereby there is a reduction of one forest use in favour of another, such as a reduced timber yield in favour of improved wildlife habitat In some cases, a management decision favouring one use in one location, is offset by a reverse decision favouring another use in another location
Arbitration procedure that allows devaluing one objective in favour of improving the value of some other objective See also Conflicting objectives Examples: "accepting a loss in efficiency for an improvement in reliability"
A trade-off is a situation where you make a compromise between two things, or where you exchange all or part of one thing for another. the trade-off between inflation and unemployment. a balance between two opposing things, that you are willing to accept in order to achieve something a trade-off between sth and sth
In an analysis or assessment of design alternatives, certain products or certain input resources are interrelated so that increasing one reduces the others Between such products or resources there is a "trade-off" cost or revenue as one is substituted for another