"trade off" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "trades off",
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        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trading off",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "traded off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "traded off",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "trade<,,traded,traded> off"
      },
      "expansion": "trade off (third-person singular simple present trades off, present participle trading off, simple past and past participle traded off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "trade away"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "trade down"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "trade in"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "trade-off"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "deverbal noun",
      "word": "tradeoff"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "trade up"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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        {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In the entry-level product category, the engineers had to trade off maximal durability for affordable upfront cost.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To choose (something) in exchange for something else, where having both at once is not an available option."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "for",
          "for"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, with for) To choose (something) in exchange for something else, where having both at once is not an available option."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with for"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Part of being a competent engineer is knowing how to trade off appropriately among mutually exclusive options, depending on the specified requirements for each design.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To choose among options, where having them all at once is not an available option."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "between",
          "between"
        ],
        [
          "among",
          "among"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, with between or among) To choose among options, where having them all at once is not an available option."
      ],
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        "with between or among"
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      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "trade off"
}

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    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "trades off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trading off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "traded off",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "traded off",
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "trade away"
    },
    {
      "word": "trade down"
    },
    {
      "word": "trade in"
    },
    {
      "word": "trade-off"
    },
    {
      "english": "deverbal noun",
      "word": "tradeoff"
    },
    {
      "word": "trade up"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In the entry-level product category, the engineers had to trade off maximal durability for affordable upfront cost.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "To choose (something) in exchange for something else, where having both at once is not an available option."
      ],
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        [
          "for",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, with for) To choose (something) in exchange for something else, where having both at once is not an available option."
      ],
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        "with for"
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        "transitive"
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "Part of being a competent engineer is knowing how to trade off appropriately among mutually exclusive options, depending on the specified requirements for each design.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To choose among options, where having them all at once is not an available option."
      ],
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          "between",
          "between"
        ],
        [
          "among",
          "among"
        ]
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        "(intransitive, with between or among) To choose among options, where having them all at once is not an available option."
      ],
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        "with between or among"
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        "intransitive"
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  "word": "trade off"
}