trade-off

1. 1.

   an exchange that occurs as a compromise

   “I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine”

   Synonymstradeoff

   Broaderexchange

Questions about trade-off

What does trade-off mean?

trade-off means "an exchange that occurs as a compromise".

How many syllables are in trade-off?

trade-off has 2 syllables: tra-de-off. The stress falls on "tra". In IPA it is /ˈtɹeɪˌdɔf/.

What is another word for trade-off?

Close synonyms include tradeoff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trade-off a common word?

trade-off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with trade-off?

3 words rhyme with trade-off. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.