tradeoff

How To Use tradeoff In A Sentence

• An illustration is the tradeoff in refinancing a home mortgage. Milton Friedman on Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• But then again, slow robots that take forever to commit suicide (such as ramming into a wall) are boring, so its a design tradeoff for you to decide.
• Clearly, readers need to be aware of shortcomings arising from tradeoffs among the above-mentioned factors.
• However, the tradeoff is an effective one if using the functional approach allows for greater programmer productivity.
• The selection of short-term or long-term financing requires the consideration of a very definite risk-return tradeoff.
• Simulation experiments demonstrate the scheme achieves a better gain in both MSN access bandwidth and overlay path delay, and better performance in terms of metrics tradeoff and routing adaptation.
• I also share Rob's push for a serious discussion of risks and tradeoffs, though the term "iterative risk management" isn't poised to take the public by storm. NYT > Home Page
• Policy decisions are always exercises in the iffy math of social tradeoffs.
• As a tradeoff, everything outside of the environments looks like it came from a first-generation computer game, and there's a big bar of load time between missions.
• Figure 2.1 summarizes these methods of comparison by showing this tradeoff between the level of abstraction and the scope of countries.