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. National Security Adviser Susan Rice:

   We reject reductive reasoning and lazy rhetoric that says conflict between the U.S. and China is inevitable even as we've been tough with China where we disagree, this isn't a zero sum game.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Huang Kunming:

   The Cold War thinking and zero sum game, this has stopped and hindered exchanges in cyberspace. Also, bully behavior in cyberspace has had a negative impact on mutual trust, by using national security as an excuse, some countries have attacked some countries and enterprises. This has increased the uncertainty, opposition and negativity in cyberspace.

5. 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.