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tradeoff

  1. What must be given up, and what is gained, when an economic decision is made.



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Financially, it was a tradeoff at first: She had no clients in Vermont.

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Financially, it was a tradeoff at first: She had no clients in Vermont.

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The tradeoff was that the villagers would no longer have a reason to cut down trees from the pandas' habitat.

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There are tons of tradeoffs involved in reducing our global carbon footprint.

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As techniques became more advanced, they also faced tradeoffs in what they could measure.

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