HyperDic: tradeoff

English > 1 sense of the word *tradeoff*:
NOUN	act	tradeoff, trade-off	an exchange that occurs as a compromise

tradeoff > pronunciation
Sounds	trey'dao.f
Rhymes	blastoff ... turnoff: 31 rhymes with aof...

English > *tradeoff*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	An exchange that occurs as a compromise.
Example	"I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine"
Synonym	trade-off
Broader	exchange, interchange	The act of changing one thing for another thing
Spanish	compensación, compromiso, dilema, disyuntiva