Synonyms for zero-sum game
ze·ro-sum game

Princeton's WordNet

1. zero-sum gamenoun

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

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1. • Game
   • Game Theory

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1. Charles Krauthammer:

   They have displaced the United States, and their entire foreign policy under Putin is to recover the glory and the territory and the influence of the old Soviet Union one piece at a time and it does that by taking away from the United States, it's a zero sum game.

2. State John Kerry:

   We don't view this as a zero-sum game ; we have never viewed it that way, this is not meant to be, nor should it be, a divide between East and West. This is about rule of law ; it's about the norms by which nation states behave.

3. Chief Executive Fred Tomczyk:

   We continue to believe that commission price wars are a zero-sum game, different competitors may take different courses of action.

4. Mandy Grunwald:

   The reaction in our party implies that it's a zero-sum game : We only talk about Donald Trump or we never talk about Donald Trump. We're in the' and' zone. People want to talk about the economy and what's happening in people's lives, and all kinds of stuff, but you just can't ignore this. It's that sense that you have to choose, it's one or the other : Because Terry McAuliffe didn't win, and Terry McAuliffe talked about Donald Trump, that's the end of it. That's nonsense.

5. Susan Page:

   I don't think the debate is necessarily a zero-sum game, it's not so much what the contenders need to do to win the debate; it's what they need to do to position themselves to prevail as the nominee.