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What does zero-sum mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word zero-sum? Here's what it means.

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  1. Of any system where all gains are offset by exactly equal losses.
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It is helpful to present this puzzle as a two-person, zero-sum, win-lose game.
The zero-sum manpower game that Killebrew talks about means that many combat soldiers will be reclassified and retrained.
This appointment process is a zero-sum political struggle, and both sides are out to deal each other a major, damaging defeat.
In a zero-sum budgetary game, welfare can hardly yield its share, while defense can do some.
Most involve zero-sum derivative contracts where gains to one party equal losses to the other.
We start to understand a lot more about a zero-sum society, where if some get a benefit others have to lose.

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