Usually means: One's gain equals another's loss.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. zero-sum: Merriam-Webster
  2. zero-sum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. zero-sum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. zero-sum, zero-sum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Zero-Sum, zero-sum: Wordnik
  6. zero-sum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. zero-sum: Wiktionary
  8. zero-sum: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. zero-sum, zero sum: Dictionary.com
  10. zero-sum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Zero Sum (The X-Files), Zero-sum, Zero-sum (Game theory), Zero-sum (game theory), Zero sum (disambiguation), Zero sum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. zero-sum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. zero-sum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  14. zero-sum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Zero Sum, zero-sum: Financial dictionary
  3. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. zero-sum: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Zero-Sum: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Zero sum)

noun:  a situation in which a participant's gain or loss is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the other participants.

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