TRAD

e-off - a balancing of two opposing situations or qualities, both of which are desiredThere is a trade-off between doing the job accurately and doing it quickly.She said that she'd had to make a trade-off between her job and her family.A trade-off is also something that you do not really want but that you accept in order to have something else that you do want.For some car buyers, lack of space is an acceptable trade-off for a sporty design.