zero-sum game

Speech parts

1. zero-sum game - Noun

2. zero-sum game - Phrase

Meaning

a game in which the total of all the gains and losses is zero

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Synonyms

fight to the death high-stakes game decisive game all-or-nothing strategy life-or-death game absolute winner game all-in gamble betting everything binary approach binary bet binary challenge binary outcome all-or-nothing challenge black-and-white situation all-or-nothing gamble

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Antonyms

cooperative game non-zero-sum game positive-sum game collaborative game low-stakes game mutually beneficial game

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Hypernyms

game

Examples

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming. John D. Carmack

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world. Richard Levin

The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time. Eric Schmidt

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game. Julia Gillard

Thus evolved some members of the Core-not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy. Dan Simmons

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain. Eric Liu

Words in the phrase

zero sum game

Close letter words and terms

zero-shot learning zero-sugar zero-sum zero-tolerance policy zero-turn zero-valent