Verb
trade away (third-person singular simple present trades away, present participle trading away, simple past and past participle traded away)
(transitive) To relinquish, to yield.
The team traded away their best player.
We're more comfortable in that kind of business. It means we miss a lot of very big winners. But we wouldn't know how to pick them out anyway. It also means we have very few big losers - and that's quite helpful over time. We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff. Warren Buffett
...the leaders of an independent Scotland will be only too happy to trade away that independence in return for admission to the fleshpots of Brussels for themselves and their families, goes without saying; they have the example of Westminster to copy. George MacDonald Fraser