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Definition: Trade-off |
Trade-offNoun1. An exchange that occurs as a compromise: "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine" trade acceptance n : a bill of exchange for a specific purchase; drawn on the buyer by the seller and bearing the buyer's acceptance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Post & Telecom | The process of weighing conflicting requirements and reaching a compromise decision. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Trade-offSynonym: tradeoff (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Trade-off |
| Specialty definitions using "trade-off": backing store ♦ Group-Sweeping Scheduling ♦ three-t-model. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Al Hunt | We're skipping around a little bit, Mr. Chairman, but let me ask you this. There is always a trade-off between promoting American ideals and values around the world and necessity. |
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| "Trade-off" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Trade-off" is used about 144 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 144 | 26,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "trade-off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 交换 (EXCH, Exchange, Exchanged, Exchanging, Permute, reciprocate, Reciprocated, reciprocating, SWAP, Swapped, Swapping, Switched, Trucked, trucking). (various references) | |
Hungarian | optimalizálás (optimization), kompromisszum (compromise). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | トルコ帽 (fez, house trailer, sweat pants, sweat shirt, sweatshirt, tolerance, Tolstoy, toreador, toreador pants, tornado, torso, tortilla, trace, tracer, tracing, tracing paper, trade, trade money, trade show, trade union, trademark, trader, trading, trading company, trail bike, trailer, trailer bus, trailer house, train, trainer, training, training camp, training pants, training shoes, training wear, training wizard, tray, tread, trekker, tremolo, trench coat, trenching, troubadour, very good). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | トレードオフ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ade-offtray.(various references) | |
Russian | выбор оптимального решения. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tradeoff. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-f-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: afford, dafter, doffer, effort, fedora, orated, rafted. | |
-3 letters: adore, afore, after, dater, defat, derat, doter, draff, draft, fader, fared, fated, fetor, forte, oared, oater, offed, offer, ofter, orate, oread, rated, tardo, tared, trade, tread, trode. | |
-4 letters: aero, daff, daft, dare, dart, date, dato, deaf, dear, deft, doat, doer, doff, dore, dote, drat, fade. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-f-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: affronted, tradeoffs. | |
+2 letters: afforested. | |
+3 letters: overstaffed. | |
+4 letters: reafforested. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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