zero-sumEnglishOxford Dictionary of Englishzero-sum ▸ adjective [attributive] relating to or denoting a situation in which whatever is gained by one side is lost by the other: altruism is not a zero-sum game he heard that international trade was essentially a zero-sum competition between nations.
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