zero-sum game

1. 1.

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

   Broadergame

   game theory

Questions about zero-sum game

What does zero-sum game mean?

zero-sum game means "a game in which the total of all the gains and losses is zero".

Is zero-sum game a common word?

zero-sum game 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.