Example sentences for: trade-off

How can you use “trade-off” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some have suggested a trade-off: End the estate tax but tax capital gains at death.

  • It matters whether it is 10 or 12 or eight, because every time we rewrite a criminal statute or modify the rules of evidence, we are adjusting the terms of the trade-off.

  • For a site as packed with contents as this one (and we speak only of quantity here), designing the contents page is a constant trade-off between packing the information tightly, to minimize scrolling, and presenting it attractively.

  • Even in the trade-off of lives for lives, let alone the less appealing trade-off of lives for dollars, making airlines too safe may be a bad deal.

  • Plants face a trade-off between attracting pollinators and remaining hidden from flower parasites (such as nectar robbers and seed predators).


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