game theory

1. 1.

   (economics) a theory of competition stated in terms of gains and losses among opposing players

   Synonymstheory of games

   Broaderscientific theory

   economics

Questions about game theory

What does game theory mean?

game theory means "(economics) a theory of competition stated in terms of gains and losses among opposing players".

What is another word for game theory?

Close synonyms include theory of games. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is game theory a common word?

game theory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.