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View definitions for trade-off

trade-off

noun as in give-and-take

noun as in tit for tat

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Well, this is what control looks like: it gives the government options, trade-offs and accountability for what it chooses to do or not to do.

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"What I was actually being given was a very harmful and very radical set of political views, which is almost like the trade-off for belonging to these people."

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"For now, buying time is the best strategy - maybe offering the US cheaper imports of industrial goods as a trade-off."

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While Signal is the top recommendation among security experts, other apps offer encrypted messaging with varying trade-offs:

But if it means he and the Dodgers can avoid the kind of struggles he endured in 2020, it’s a trade-off everyone involved appears happy to make.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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