"trade off" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: trades off [present, singular, third-person], trading off [participle, present], traded off [participle, past], traded off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|trade<,,traded,traded> off}} trade off (third-person singular simple present trades off, present participle trading off, simple past and past participle traded off)
  1. (transitive, with for) To choose (something) in exchange for something else, where having both at once is not an available option. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-trade_off-en-verb-EtYBgPrZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 78 22
  2. (intransitive, with between or among) To choose among options, where having them all at once is not an available option. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-trade_off-en-verb-Md4eTo9C
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: trade away, trade down, trade in, trade-off, tradeoff (english: deverbal noun), trade up

Inflected forms

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