📔zero-sum game 🇺🇸
📋Meaning
A zero-sum game is a situation in which any gain by one side or person is at the expense of a loss to another side or person involved in the situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The stock market has become a giant zero-sum game in which one investor gains what another investor loses.
🗣In a zero-sum game, if you add the total gains of the participants and the total losses of the participants, the sum will always be zero.
▫️Origin
From game theory, a branch of applied mathematics that is used in the social sciences, especially economics.
▫️Variety
This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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📋Meaning
A zero-sum game is a situation in which any gain by one side or person is at the expense of a loss to another side or person involved in the situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The stock market has become a giant zero-sum game in which one investor gains what another investor loses.
🗣In a zero-sum game, if you add the total gains of the participants and the total losses of the participants, the sum will always be zero.
▫️Origin
From game theory, a branch of applied mathematics that is used in the social sciences, especially economics.
▫️Variety
This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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