to accept a disadvantage so that you can have a benefit
'What you've got to understand, Thorn, is that everything's a trade-off.
But if you're asking me whether that's an unacceptable trade-off for putting Radecki away and winding up his rackets, I'd have to say no.
They traded off a positive rate of inflation for a lower unemployment rate.
trades off
trading off
traded off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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