Определение trade-offs в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
The alternatives individuals, firms, and society face; for example, whether to choose one good or input or another, whether to visit a park or go to a movie
The combination of benefits and costs which are gained and lost in switching between alternative courses of action "Trade-offs" include only those portions of benefits and costs that are not common to all alternative courses of action under consideration
these arise when two things cannot be fully achieved So, the more you have of one the less you can have of the other
the amount of one good (or one desirable objective) that must be given up to get more of another good (or to attain more of another desirable objective)
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"
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
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
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