Talk:trade-off
Add topicLatest comment: 13 years ago by EncycloPetey in topic tradeoff
Can the spelling tradeoff be added in this entry, and can it be mentioned which spelling is more standard or more commonly used? 71.66.97.228 04:43, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Shouldn't the plural be trades-off? Most other dictionaries list "trade-offs," but according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plural#Plurals_of_compound_nouns it seems like it should be "trades-off."
24.130.58.130 22:10, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
- But it isn't a compound noun; the compound is from a noun and an adverb/preposition. Also, not all compound nouns pluralize the first element, hence cowboys and not cowsboy. --EncycloPetey 00:12, 16 July 2011 (UTC)