trade-off
Not everyone in your family can work 100 hours a week and have the children picked up, taken to the doctor or all sporting events attended. You’re gonna need to be some trade-offs

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/intl_tv-shows/2015/07/24/lynn-good-leading-women-spc-b.cnn
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I don't see how you can say " You're gonna need to be some trade-offs." My dictionary says trade-off is a situation where two different things are balanced. So I assume the sentence should be like, There has to be some trade-offs. It's the script made in our country, so it can be wrong.

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trade-off
Not everyone in your family can work 100 hours a week and have the children picked up, taken to the doctor or all sporting events attended. You’re gonna need to be some trade-offs

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/intl_tv-shows/2015/07/24/lynn-good-leading-women-spc-b.cnn
This is the link..

I don't see how you can say " You're gonna need to be some trade-offs." My dictionary says  trade-off is a situation where two different things are balanced. So I assume the sentence should be like, There has to be some trade-offs.  It's the script made in our country, so it can be wrong.

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The line is at 1:56, if anyone else wants to check.

I heard something like, "There are going to need to be some trade offs", but the editing chopped off the first fraction of a second.

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I agree - there's something wrong here.

The writer probably hesitated between " You're gonna need some trade-offs" and (something like) " There's gotta be some trade-offs" and ended up writing a sentence which didn't make sense. It's easy to do when you're editing in a hurry and don't bother to check your work.

I like your user name, by the way!

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It is wrong. It should say "There are gonna need to be some trade-offs" or "There will be trade-offs" or something along those lines with the main point being "there" since "you" as a person cannot be a trade-off.

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