trade-off

to accept a disadvantage so that you can have a benefit; the act of balancing two things that are opposed to each other การต้องเลือกอย่างใดอย่างหนึ่ง, ได้อย่างหนึ่งก็ต้องเสียอีกอย่างหนึ่ง

"Building the dam inside the national park will cause damage to the ecological system, but it will increase the irrigation area and ease flood problems. It's a trade-off," he said.

``We found there is going to be a very sharp trade-off between producing energy and the impact on food and biodiversity,'' lead author Guy Ziv of Stanford University said.

Obviously there are trade-offs for choosing city life over a suburban home.