A trade-off usually refers to losing one quality or aspect of something in return for gaining another quality or aspect. It implies a decision to be made with full comprehension of both the upside and downside of a particular choice.

The most basic trade-off in the human experience is what you do with your time. In any given period of time, you can do an activity which can earn you money in work or provide happiness in a leisure. The time can only be used one way so one activity is done while sacrificing the other. This gives rise to the common idiom that time is money.

A classic trade-off in business is the trio of time, money and quality. It is generally considered that only two of the three can be anchored at any given moment.

A term relating to opportunity cost sometimes to get a desired economic good it is necessary to trade off some other desired economic good for another. A trade-off, then, involves a sacrifice that must be made to obtain

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade-off)

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