~ (between sth and sth) the act of balancing two things that you need or want but which are opposed to each other:
There is a trade-off between the benefits of the drug and the risk of side effects.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for trade-off is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is trade-off a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, trade-off is tagged as noun.
Does trade-off appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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