Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun trade-off

1 sense of trade-off

Sense 1
tradeoff, trade-off -- (an exchange that occurs as a compromise; "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine")
       => exchange, interchange -- (the act of changing one thing for another thing; "Adam was promised immortality in exchange for his disobedience"; "there was an interchange of prisoners")