| 释义 |
trade something offExchange something of value, especially as part of a compromise: the government traded off economic advantages for political gains...- They come and they take the pins that I get because I'm smart enough to get more than one of each country so I can trade them off.
- Traumatised employees and relatively small financial losses are traded off against the greater expense of added security and extended care for staff.
- But there is no way of ranking these many goods or trading them off against one another, so there is not always, all things considered, a best thing to do.
See parent entry: trade |