make trade-off vs take trade-off

Both 'make trade-off' and 'take trade-off' are commonly used phrases in English, but they are used in different contexts. 'Make trade-off' is used when referring to the act of deciding between two options with different advantages and disadvantages. On the other hand, 'take trade-off' is used when describing the acceptance or consideration of the consequences of a trade-off that has been made.

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make trade-off

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when referring to the act of deciding between two options with different advantages and disadvantages.

This phrase is used when discussing the process of making a decision that involves giving up one thing in return for another, usually due to conflicting interests or constraints.

Examples:

When designing the new product, we had to make a trade-off between cost and quality.
In negotiations, it's important to be able to make trade-offs to reach a mutually beneficial agreement.

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If economics, if the market, drives security, and if people make trade-offs based on the feeling of security, then the smart thing for companies to do for the economic incentives are to make people feel secure.
Even if the improvement of the environment is the general policy objective, in every day life regional and local authorities decide between different environment parameters and often make trade-offs between the environmental impacts of different measures.
(2) specific cost-based quantification contributes to regulatory transparency (quantifying costs helps to make trade-offs more transparent, provided that the benefits including longer term benefits are also investigated);
We make these trade-offs again and again, multiple times a day.
Morales will make that trade-off any day.
Now, what we want is people to get familiar enough with better models - have it reflected in their feelings - to allow them to make security trade-offs.
It's important that, if our feelings match reality, we make better security trade-offs.
Building a knowledge society is probably the best, and perhaps only, way to sustain the European social model without having to make a trade-off between economic growth, social cohesion and environmental protection.
And there's a thousand and one articles out there telling us how to make all these green trade-offs.
That rabbit will make a security trade-off: "Should I stay, or should I flee?"
It's a trade-off we have to make.
This principle therefore requires the designer/installer to make an explicit, but essentially qualitative, trade-off between practicability and closeness.
If we wish to journey beyond our home planet, this is the trade off we make, for the chance to see the galaxy.
And the question to ask when you look at a security anything is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.
If the trade-off you get into is, "Let's make energy super expensive," then the rich can afford that. I mean, all of us here could pay five times as much for our energy and not change our lifestyle.
However, it has to be a genuine trade-off: there has to be a genuine commitment from Member States to make the changes necessary to reduce their CO2 emissions in order to allow the continued pollution from existing plants for a few years longer.
So the invasive Argentine ant makes expandable search networks. They're good at dealing with the main problem of collective search, which is the trade-off between searching very thoroughly and covering a lot of ground.
Once the final trade-off between the costs and benefits of online selling has been evaluated, would it not be preferable to make a single decision - either to permit or not to permit the sale of medicines online without prescription across the EU?
It's a trade-off I'd make.

Alternatives:

make a trade-off
decide on a trade-off
choose a trade-off
opt for a trade-off
balance a trade-off

take trade-off

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when describing the acceptance or consideration of the consequences of a trade-off that has been made.

This phrase is used when discussing the act of accepting or dealing with the outcomes of a trade-off that has already been decided upon.