单词 | to trade off |
释义 | > as lemmasto trade off to trade off 1. transitive. To dispose of by trade or barter; to exchange for something else. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)] interchangec1374 changea1382 barterc1440 corsec1440 rore1440 truckc1440 coss14.. scorse1509 chafferc1535 to chop and change1549 chop1554 cope1570 excourse1593 swap1594 coupc1610 exchange1614 to trade off1676 rap1699 dicker1864 horse-trade1924 1676 J. Flavell Sea-mans Compan. v. 151 Some trade in lies, as much as in Wares; yes, they trade off their Wares with lies. 1768 February 1768: Gen. Assembly Rhode-Island & Providence Plantations (Acts & Resolves) 76 A means of bringing into the Government a Number of Vessels from the neighbouring Colonies with such necessary Articles (to trade off for Coal) as at present we are obliged to send after. 1793 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1810) 1st Ser. III. 1 Good crops of corn and rye, which they trade off for spirituous liquors. 1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing 33 To see what chance I could find to trade off my ax handles. 1888 Good Housek. 21 Jan. 156/1 The girl who borrowed the tricycle and traded it off for a string of beads. 1924 Boys' Life Sept. 50/3 I did have a coin made in 1732 English...I traded it off for some other coins. 1969 Field & Stream Dec. 16/1 These things wear out, get lost, or are eventually traded off for something new and better. 2011 B. Sherk Old Car Detectives lx. 161 Ben Koop owned his 1952 Meteor for seven years before trading it off for a Ford one-ton stake truck. 2. transitive. Originally U.S. To give up (something) in exchange for something else, esp. (in later use) as a compromise. Also: to balance (something) against something else as a compromise. ΚΠ 1855 N.Y. Times 28 Mar. 4/4 The journals..asserted over and over again that Temperance was to be traded off for Seward. 1899 Sun (Baltimore) 29 May 7/7 We must resist the most faint beginning of trading it [sc. the birthright of freedom] off for any supposed advantage. 1972 Sci. Amer. June 22/3 Warheads can be traded off for either ABM penetration aids or increased range. 1978 R. Evelegh Peace Keeping in Democratic Society i. 37 Usually, the effect on one group had to be traded-off against that on another. 1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) xiii. 434 The new mutant was distinctly dangerous because it had not traded off virulence for persistence. 2013 Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. 13 Nicolas Sarkozy struck a deal with the Greens in which GM technology was traded off for nuclear energy. < as lemmas |
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