Tradeoff is an English word with synonyms like exchange. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tradeoff meaning
An advantage or improvement that necessitates the corresponding loss or degradation of something else.
Synonyms of Tradeoff
Using Tradeoff
- The main meaning on this page is: An advantage or improvement that necessitates the corresponding loss or degradation of something else.
- Useful related words include: trade-off, exchange.
- In the example corpus, tradeoff often appears in combinations such as: the tradeoff, tradeoff between, tradeoff of.
Context around Tradeoff
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tradeoff
- In this selection, "tradeoff" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, variance, difficult, worthy, main, emerges and makes stand out and add context to how "tradeoff" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a difficult tradeoff and a fair tradeoff for whole. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tradeoff" sits close to words such as abalone, abomination and addressable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tradeoff
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But it is, decidedly, a tradeoff. (6 words)
This is your tradeoff to make. (6 words)
The tradeoff is often a decrease in damage dealt. (9 words)
Researchers have now found that setbacks come down to a tradeoff: They report that the same disadvantaged communities that buffers are intended to protect would receive one-third of the statewide health benefits — and suffer a third of the job losses. (41 words)
The VA panel here is a tradeoff by Amazon to offer a better price while compromising on brightness and color reproduction in addition to viewing angles, all of which some of its competitors do somewhat better than the Fire TV. (40 words)
Can you just talk a little bit more about the decision to raise capital through the ATM and kind of how you view the tradeoff of near-term dilution versus future returns from that capital? (35 words)
Can you just talk a little bit more about the decision to raise capital through the ATM and kind of how you view the tradeoff of near-term dilution versus future returns from that capital? (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
There are four major issues to consider in supervised learning: Bias-variance tradeoff main A first issue is the tradeoff between bias and variance.
Blind obedience to an authoritarian God is a tradeoff for a secure attachment that was not experienced as a child.
But it is, decidedly, a tradeoff.
But until there are major infrastructure changes — including developing storage for clean energy — that allow for more renewable energy or efficient cooling systems, people in the hottest regions of India face a difficult tradeoff.
Can you just talk a little bit more about the decision to raise capital through the ATM and kind of how you view the tradeoff of near-term dilution versus future returns from that capital?
Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU cooler but they do end up costing nearly as much as most entry-level AIOs, making it a tradeoff that you might not like at times.
Here's the tradeoff, according to the study: most of the new jobs and wealth will benefit white-collar professionals in the medical, financial and tech fields.
Researchers have now found that setbacks come down to a tradeoff: They report that the same disadvantaged communities that buffers are intended to protect would receive one-third of the statewide health benefits — and suffer a third of the job losses.
That also means that there’s a tradeoff at work here.
That feels like a worthy tradeoff for the lack of explosiveness.
The second tradeoff emerges from the financing of the state budgets.
The tradeoff is often a decrease in damage dealt.
The VA panel here is a tradeoff by Amazon to offer a better price while compromising on brightness and color reproduction in addition to viewing angles, all of which some of its competitors do somewhat better than the Fire TV.
This awful risk-reward tradeoff makes Mullen stock uninvestable.
This is your tradeoff to make.
A slight speed reduction in rooms adjacent to dead zones like that is a fair tradeoff for whole-home coverage.
For them, the effort to wake up early was totally worth the tradeoff for a weekend well-spent lounging on the beach instead of seeking shelter under an umbrella.
Granted, the wearer must heal the poisoned creature to cure them, but that seems like a small tradeoff.
Instead, firefighting efforts could pose a direct threat to the waterways, including the use of fire retardant, which is toxic to fish, though experts say it’s a necessary tradeoff.
Only over really sharp hits does it ever thud or slap, but the tradeoff is good grip and a planted stance at all times.
Common combinations with tradeoff
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tradeoff 17×
- tradeoff between 11×
- tradeoff of 8×
- tradeoff is 7×
- tradeoff for 6×
- is tradeoff 5×
- this tradeoff 4×
- tradeoff in 3×
- tradeoff makes 2×
- tradeoff with 2×