"Sum game" refers to a situation where one person's gain or success is directly balanced by another person's loss or failure. It suggests that the total outcome of a particular situation remains constant, with no possibility for both parties to gain or for everyone to benefit.
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- A referendum is a zero - sum game of winner takes all, no matter how tiny the count is between the winners and losers. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
- Still others fall in the middle, seeing other nations as rivals and viewing economics as a zero - sum game in which, when the home country loses, other countries win. (relevantmagazine.com)
- It's time to stop the zero - sum game where regions merely pull jobs from each other with expensive tax incentives and call it economic development. (fortune.com)
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